Word: clintons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...What you might get:] The chance to help Tripp defend herself against "the Clinton machine...
...Will it help anyone else?] Yes, it will encourage other Clinton whistle blowers...
With Hillary Clinton's senatorial campaign managing to entangle itself in its own feet while running in place, New Yorkers find themselves returning to the question of whether or not Mayor Rudolph Giuliani has precisely the right temperament for the Senate--a deliberative body in which the acceptable responses to a colleague's disagreeing with you have traditionally not included trying to have a homeless shelter put in his neighborhood...
Maybe better to say potential torrent. Past budget forecasts have been wildly off-target. As recently as 1996, the Clinton Administration predicted deficits of $200 billion or more each year as far as the eye could see. So, can today's great expectations be trusted? Absolutely, said a majority of members at a special session of TIME's Board of Economists, which met recently in Washington to debate the budgetary outlook. For this occasion the board included some of the country's most important public officials as well as economists. They split along party lines on what to do with...
...everyone at the meeting agreed. Alicia Munnell, a former member of Clinton's Council of Economic Advisers, now a professor at Boston College School of Management, voiced distrust of the surplus estimate, arguing that caps on federal spending budgeted for the next three fiscal years are wildly unrealistic and will--in fact, should--be exceeded. Already the government is evading spending caps by sticking an "emergency" label on all sorts of additional outlays. That, said Munnell, "makes a mockery of the whole process." Also, she noted, revenues are getting a huge boost from soaring stock prices, which inflate capital-gains...