Word: debts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bill Clinton, the rear guard of the welfare state, who represents the past. It's Bob Dole who represents the future. After all, if the Clinton budgets had been adopted without protest, the deficit would continue to increase. Increasing interest on the national debt, coupled with the out-of-control entitlements Bill Clinton has so successfully campaigned on, would mean that by 2002, there would be no room in the federal budget for any domestic spending at all--even The Crimson's precious jobs bill--without a huge tax increase. And who would bear the brunt of that? The very...
...from their ostensible mandates. The Blue Chip Growth Fund, for example, was heavily invested in small and midsize companies. (Its manager, Michael Gordon, left Fidelity to work with Vinik.) Asset Manager, which was supposed to be a low-risk diversified fund, had 18% of its holdings in Mexican debt...
Thirteen years later, he was convicted of beating a man to death over an unpaid $600 debt. He served three years and 11 months in prison, and was pardoned after his release by then-Ohio Gov. James A. Rhodes...
...going to the poorhouse, with great confidence. That's the message being sent by a pair of seemingly conflicting indicators. The first, which is consumer debt, shows that Americans are deeper in hock than ever; the average household owes more than $52,000. Yet a widely watched index of consumer confidence issued by the Conference Board, a business research group, soared in August to a six-year high. It all makes perfect sense to board economist Delos Smith, who says, "People are using plastic to buy all sorts of things, and they feel good about it." But as that debt...
...METAPHORS] "Let's take a moment to review the record of Democratic and Republican dominance...Their legacy is a mountain of debt...