Word: considerable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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HAVING pledged not to raise taxes or cut Social Security benefits, Bush must find the money somewhere. Since he can do nothing about the interest payments on the $2.6 trillion federal debt and could never cut enough money from social programs to do the trick, Bush must consider new weapons...
Yet Congress cannot ignore growing public fears that greed, debt and buyouts are all spiraling out of control. "The dealmakers have gone too far," says Samuel Hayes, professor of finance at Harvard Business School. "They have defied that tolerance that allowed them their freedom." Federal Reserve chairman Greenspan urged the...
Opponents of the official-English movement consider it to be no more than a socially acceptable way of tapping into xenophobic fears: fear of being outnumbered by immigrants, fear that jobs are in jeopardy from cheap labor, just plain fear of anyone different. Stewart Kwoh, executive director of the Asian...
The current law defines a Jew as anyone born of a Jewish mother or converted by a rabbi, regardless of whether the rabbi was Orthodox, Conservative or Reform. The new version would legitimize only Orthodox conversions. Most American Jews have no intention of emigrating to Israel, but they consider the...
"But I wouldn't consider it [proof of intent] the key to unlock the door. I wouldn't say that any given item is the hinge" of the case, he said.