Word: deficits
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Atlanta got sloppy in the second half and Charlotte cut the deficit to 81-71 on Eldridge Recasner's three-point play with 8:30 remaining. The hornets had two chances to cut Atlanta's lead to single digits but failed to convert, and the Hawks pulled away on baskets by Mookie Blaylock and Ty Corbin...
Still, the Pistons worked the deficit down to three points four times late in the game--the last at 84-81 on a layup by Bison Dele with 53 seconds remaining. Hill appeared to make it a one-point game on a layup with 29.9 seconds left, but instead picked up an offensive foul...
Nemtsov said Russia's budget deficit should be reduced and the national debt restructured. Tax laws should also be reformed, he said...
...number of articles on homelessness that appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune and Los Angeles Times totaled 847; in 1996 those four dailies ran just 200 stories on the subject. As recently as 1991, 8% of Americans said homelessness--more than crime, the budget deficit, education or the decline of American values--was "the main problem facing the country today." Only half as many people now believe that. "Most of the emphasis today is on the feel-good," says Housing and Urban Development Secretary Andrew Cuomo, who founded a New York City homeless agency...
...Lindner's political connections. "But the fact is, the banana dispute has evolved into a crucial test" of the enforceability of rulings by the World Trade Organization, which, to no avail, ordered the E.U. to drop its banana restrictions by Jan. 1. Rising concern about the U.S. trade deficit--up 50% in 1998 and expected to rise as much as 80% in 1999--has critics clamoring. Last month Senate majority leader Trent Lott, in a letter to President Clinton, warned, "If the Administration will not take action to protect trade agreements, Congress will have no choice but to take action...