Word: debts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...proven to be totally reliable. But what is generally accepted is that three straight declines could indicate that a recession is coming some three to six months down the road." Early figures also reveal a lackluster Christmas season for retailers, who bore the brunt of record levels of consumer debt...
...balanced budget put forward by Senate minority leader Tom Daschle. But one senior Clinton aide admitted that endorsing the plan was just "a p.r. game." Thus while the mere melodramas of locked doors, halted passports and shuttered museums came to a close, the truly historic question of breaking the debt addiction was in danger of receding, out of relief and exhaustion and confusion, as if everyone knew that if the two sides couldn't solve this little matter of paychecks, the bigger issues were past the point of rescue...
Brown and Dimock said most graduate students already are deep in debt from students loans and would be loathe to take on more liabilities...
...BUDGET, THEN DEBT...
...Archer sent off a stern letter to Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin warning him of a "constitutional and legal crisis" between the branches if Rubin continues to jigger the federal books without congressional approval. So far, the Treasury Secretary has foiled the G.O.P., which has refused to raise the federal debt limit until it gets a budget deal, by making a series of deft accounting moves that have kept the debt just under the authorized ceiling of $4.9 trillion...