Word: defaulters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That may well be the way in which the gas tax becomes more attractive: by default. "Everything else is worse," says economist Lester Thurow, dean of M.I.T.'s Sloan School of Management. For instance, Congress will be loath to fiddle with personal income tax rates so soon after the landmark Tax Reform Act of 1986. And while additional "sin" levies on alcohol and tobacco will be an option, they would raise far less revenue than a comparable gasoline-tax hike. At the same time, a national sales tax would be a complex experiment that lawmakers seem unlikely...
Captain Alex Konovalchik, at 190 lbs., took six points by default when his Springfield man left the mat with a bloody mouth in the first period. Konovalchik also sang the blues, hardly changing his teammate's lyrics...
...creating the structure of the modern welfare state. Its agenda enacted, the party has run out of energy and ideas. Consequently, the party of the right, with its claim on the nationalist idea and all its attendant emotional and political power, has been handed the game almost by default...
Denver citizens have by default thrown the burden back to the legislators, on the state and local levels, and the resulting solutions have not been popular. Three years ago, Colorado instituted an automobile emissions inspection program for Denver and other cities along the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains. Last year the emissions standards were tightened further. Many cars simply cannot pass these restrictions without time-consuming and often costly adjustments, and the inconvenience and expense thus make such a program a ripe target for disgruntled comments and community...
Cavazos' recent agreement with Congress to delay cuts in federal funds to schools with high default rates indicates a far more conciliatory and cooperative attitude toward Congress than Bennett ever showed. Such cuts--Bennett's parting shot in his last week in office--would unjustly punish schools with high percentages of lower-income students...