Word: contract
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Clinton stepped forward last week with his own tax-cut plan, one that by most indications could have been lifted straight from the G.O.P.'s 1994 Contract with America. The measure would cut capital-gains taxes, reduce the estate tax, create education savings accounts similar to IRAs and extend a proposed tax credit for children to cover teenagers as well. The Clinton package was a significant step in the direction of the competing plans that had passed both the House and the Senate the previous week. And yet even as Republicans tried to sound magnanimous, hints of resentment kept creeping...
...having seized the center on welfare reform, the budget and other G.O.P. causes, the President threatens to outflank the Republicans again--this time on the one piece of ideology that holds the party together. Tax cuts, declared Speaker Newt Gingrich in 1995, were the "crown jewel" of his Contract with America...
Ethnic lobbying groups such as the Polish American Congress had already begun flooding the White House and Capitol Hill with telegrams demanding that NATO enlarge. Bob Dole and the House Republican Contract with America backed expansion. But White House polls during the 1996 campaign showed that enlargement wasn't a litmus test for the 21 million Americans of East European descent. The poll Clinton paid more attention to showed that foreign policy successes improved his re-election chances. "The idea that Reagan brought down the Berlin Wall, Bush unified Germany, and Clinton will unite Europe sounded good at 1600 Pennsylvania...
...veracity have been called into question by Trooper Ronald Anderson, who says he was brought in to lend credibility to the proposed book since two other troopers were under attack for allegedly lying in another matter. In the end, according to his affidavit, Anderson refused to sign the contract with Jackson--who promised the troopers six-figure jobs--because the stories were "old fish tales with little, if any, basis in fact." The others went forward into print (never getting their book deal), and the rest is presidential--and tabloid--history...
Haddad said he will do whatever it takes to keep the Tasty open and will soon contract Goddard for a meeting