Word: closers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Democratic concerns and sent Bill Archer's $85 billion tax cut package to the House floor Friday. If passed, the legislation will give Americans their first major tax cut in 16 years. The GOP successfully beat back a barrage of attacks from Democrats who tried to bring the legislation closer to the tax package envisioned by the White House, which has criticized the Archer plan as not providing enough tax relief to the working poor and middle class. The legislation, however, suffered a surprising setback after a half dozen Republicans lined up with Democrats to defeat a provision which sought...
...took 38 months from the time we first decided to commence development to the time Viracept was approved, and that's strikingly short," says Johnson. Drug development took "basically three years, as opposed to an average in the industry that's closer to eight years or more...
...example, have siphoned the entire pension fund of state-owned France-Telecom into the national treasury in order to bring down the deficit. In Germany, Kohl has plunged into a furious fight with the stick-to-the-rules Bundesbank by moving to revalue the country's gold reserves closer to a "market" price to add $10 billion to the federal coffers. The Bundesbank warns that such a trick could undermine "the credibility and stability" of the euro...
...songs are as familiar and comfortable as old flannel shirts and just about as exciting." Really? Next time you see a sold-out performance with an audience that has no problem in sitting through a downpour or 100[degree] heat to listen to Taylor, you might try to get closer to one of the fans. This man continues to draw record crowds whose members vary greatly in age; his talents are constantly being rediscovered by new generations with the release of each fresh album. I am proud that Taylor continues to walk onto that stage in his own unassuming style...
...Harvard's e-mail system was processing about 40,000 to 50,000 messages a day. This fall, the system was processing closer to 300,000 messages a day and at peak times would have more than 1,000 users logged on at once...