Word: collectivity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...addition, he faulted "new members of the Congressional majority, [who] while billing themselves as reformers, collect on average more than $60,000 from Washington-based political action committees in just the first six months in office...
...head in the field on gun control. "Being a conservative doesn't mean you have to lose your common sense," the 30-second, televised spot informs Iowa voters. The Indiana senator, who says he believes in Americans' rights to own a gun "for self-protection, to hunt and to collect," stresses that he was the only member of Congress running for the nomination to have opposed the 1994 assault weapons ban vetoed by President Clinton. The ad concludes: "There is no right to sweep a playground with an assault weapon...
...pays a lot of dues. If they get a little break, what's the big deal?" Supporters of the change say lower rates would encourage more investment and spur greater turnover of holdings, thus leading to increased tax revenues. "More people would sell assets, and the U.S. Treasury would collect more taxes," says Stephen Moore, director of fiscal-policy studies at the conservative Cato Institute and author of a new study on the subject. "Every time the rate has been cut, payments by the wealthy have risen substantially...
...things the troops will not do. "The implementation force will not be responsible for the conduct of humanitarian operations," he says. "It will not be a police force. It will not conduct nation building. It will not be a disarmament force and chase after people to collect weapons and whatnot. And it will not be responsible for the movement of refugees." In other words, this time there will be no "mission creep," Pentagonese for the gradual expansion of tasks, which turned the Somalia intervention from an initial success to an eventual debacle...
...ethics committee, which has been investigating the finances of Speaker Newt Gingrich, proposed altering the chamber's rules to bring book royalties under the $20,040-a-year limit on members' outside income. The G.O.P. leadership wants the change vetted in hearings, which will give Gingrich more time to collect possible multimillion-dollar revenues from his 1995 book To Renew America...