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...However imprecise his budgetary math, Ross Perot can be credited with getting people to think seriously about deficit cutting. Even more earnest thinking is now coming from the Concord Coalition, a year-old group headed by three men safely out of the Election Day line of fire: Nixon-era Commerce Secretary Pete Peterson and two ex-Senators, Warren Rudman of New Hampshire and Paul Tsongas of Massachusetts, whose presidential campaign peaked on the eat-your-spinach message that everyone must sacrifice to bring the deficit down. Claiming 100,000 followers in 50 states, they aim to make it easier...
...Concord jeremiad goes this way. Even if Clinton's original budget package had passed unchanged, by 1997 the deficit would be just $140 billion lower than what it otherwise would have been. After that it would rise again rapidly, reaching $465 billion by 2004, about 4.6% of that year's projected GDP. The President's deficit-reduction plan fell short because its main element was a tax increase on a sliver of American households -- the 1.2% earning about $180,000 or more...
Tsongas presented "The Zero-Deficit Plan" designed by The Concord Coalition, which he and former Sen. Warren B. Rudman (R-N.H.) co- founded in 1992 to promote reduction of thefederal deficit. The plan calls for a"comprehensive entitlement means test" to makesure government funds are only going to people whoneed them...
Asian-American Women Writers Today. EvaShan Chou. Bunting Institute, 34 Concord...
...Coughlin, Dartmouth (So., F) Concord, N.H.--Netted a hat trick against Springfield in a 3-2 Big Green win; scored winning goal with only 12 seconds left to bring her season point-total...