Word: cut
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...want a tax cut? The Republicans tell me their compromise combo platter, currently ambling toward a White House veto, is just what I?ve been dreaming about at night: a 1 percent reduction in income taxes and less taxes on what I?m saving for retirement. And the slashing of capital gains taxes and the so-called marriage penalty, well, I?m sure they?d come in handy if I had a stock portfolio and a wife (someday!). So what?s not to like...
...took Dick Holbrooke a year to be confirmed as the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations -- and now he may find he has a job that his bosses back in Washington don't really care about. Holbrooke, who was nomination cleared the Senate Thursday, certainly has his work cut out for him ?- and dousing the raging diplomatic brushfires at the United Nations will be nothing compared with getting Washington to take the world body seriously. He takes his seat at a time when international diplomats are expressing unprecedented frustration with Washington?s performance in the international body. "Although Holbrooke will...
Going once, going twice... House and Senate Republicans late Tuesday came up with the refund they?ve always wanted ? a 10-year, $792 billion smattering of tax cuts that combines the House?s across-the-board dreams (in this version, a one-percentage-point cut in every bracket) with the Senate?s targeted goodies (relief of the marriage penalty, increase IRA contribution limits) that make the measure sound more like one of Bill Clinton?s than Newt Gingrich?s. And that?s exactly why maybe ? just maybe ? some of this begging-to-be-vetoed bill might survive the summer...
...easing up anytime soon. The plan: Keep the public eye on debt-reduction (cue Larry Summers) and off what the White House likes to call "America?s future" or "needed programs." (In other words, new spending.) He has the luxury of pushing delayed gratification (leavened with a small tax cut of his own) at a time when even overtaxed Americans are feeling wealthier than ever before, and the luck to be up against a GOP plan whose sheer size makes his spending programs look like the lesser of two fiscal evils. "The Republican plan assumes that government spending will increase...
Prodded in part by pressure from Davi and his supporters, Brazil in 1991 set aside 36,000 sq. mi. as a Yanomami homeland. Now mining interests and loggers want the territory cut into patches totaling 7,700 sq. mi. "They want us corralled like animals," says Davi. So when the radio in his hut calls him to a new battlefront, Davi is ready to go, no matter how far it takes him from the spirit world of forest and river...