Word: closely
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...close margin kept the candidates' spirited supporters on edge at victory parties last night...
Ruiz says it might have been a financial stretch to fund the production considering his vision, and "the producers thought...it seemed close, but we estimated that we could...
...estimate is that under present tax and benefit schedules, the Social Security system would plunge $6.9 trillion into debt between 2014 and 2034. If that is accurate, Clinton's 1999 budget proposals, which are supposed to pump $2.7 trillion into Social Security during the next 15 years, would close less than half the initial gap. Further reforms would be needed to keep revenues in balance with payouts after 2034. Also, the present system contains some glaring inequities that ought to be corrected--at the cost of making the fiscal gap even wider. No one proposal will probably come near...
EDUCATIONAL SOFTWARE The hardest job in software is to make learning fun. Few games succeed, but the CARMEN SANDIEGO series (latest: WHERE IN THE U.S.A.?) comes pretty close. Kids chase the eponymous thief around the country, improving geography skills. If only Carmen could do the same for algebra...
...private briefing for the Senate Intelligence Committee. But the Senators came out of the three-hour meeting irate. The most overheated Republicans compared Lee to Klaus Fuchs, the Los Alamos scientist who passed atomic secrets to the Soviets in the 1940s. Even Democrats raged. "It's not even a close call," said Nebraska Democrat Bob Kerrey. "This is an extremely serious national-security issue that was not given a sufficient amount of attention...