Word: deficits
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UNFORTUNATELY for the nation, there are far more pressing items on the national agenda. Deficit reduction, environmental cleanup, urban poverty, campaign reform, trade policy, health care, day care, and retraining displaced industrial workers will all be considered by the next Congress...
Although he missed his opportunity to cut the federal budget deficit, Gov. Michael S. Dukakis now must balance the Massachusetts budget, as he returns to the State House upon his presidential defeat...
...second round against Bentzel, deLonerallied from a 5-1 deficit...
...unprecedented confession that a deficit exists signaled that the Soviet Union may have to rely even more heavily on foreign trade and investment to feed and clothe its population. To help attract funds from abroad, Gostev offered to let foreign businessmen buy controlling interests in joint ventures with the Soviets. The concession was shocking in terms of Communist ideology, but fresh evidence of Gorbachev's willingness to cross Marxist boundaries in pursuit of economic improvement...
Washington insiders have long assumed that a campaign is an impolitic forum for an honest discussion of the deficit. In this cynical view, voters cannot be trusted with the unpleasant truth: a tax increase is inevitable...