Word: closers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...which came running to the IMF this summer, is getting a $17 billion aid package. Indonesia will get about $23 billion. South Korea initially asked for $20 billion, but last week its Finance Minister indicated the package might be as much as $50 billion. Financial experts put the amount closer to $60 billion when assistance from individual nations and banks is added. By comparison, Mexico's bailout three years ago cost $48 billion...
There is a whole category of "costs of the future" called "Unfunded Liabilities" which I argue make the real federal debt that you will have to pay off for services enjoyed by my generation far closer to $14-$17 trillion. Military retirement, federal civil service retirement and Social Security payments are all owed for which no (or inadequate) money has been set aside. There is a whole category of governmental services which we enjoyed but left you the bill to pay. Cheating as well as lying...
...That's not to say that Paris police are any closer to tracking down said car, despite having conducted literally thousands of interviews with white Uno owners in and around the city. Crash survivor Trevor Rees-Jones' memory was not sparked by pictures of such a vehicle. But with every day that passes, the onus is less and less on the nine paparazzi photographers ? who are all still ostensibly under investigation...
...newspaper editors. In 1992 she began paying taxes and reduced the number of royals who receive state funds (and the annus horribilis speech itself was a notable instance of candor). Nevertheless, the election of Blair and the death of Diana have intensified the process of bringing the royals closer to the people, and last week's events offered a striking case in point...
...Coalition's presentation of the important points of the issue. They listened, and they signed our petitions. The Creative Coalition, joined by several other New York-based organizations, exceeded its most ambitious projections by gathering more than 8,000 signatures in one day. A clean-elections law has moved closer to becoming a reality in the Bay State, and the Creative Coalition is pleased to be a part of that process. ALEC BALDWIN, President The Creative Coalition New York City