Word: deficits
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These changes are in response to Loker's continued budget deficit and follow last semester's undergraduate survey. Officials from the College, HDS and the Memorial Hall/Lowell Hall Complex (MHLHC) have combined efforts to revitalize Loker...
...course, the truly historic thing about the deal was how both parties were so spooked by their own pasts. This budget, which shrinks the deficit by $182 billion over five years, pales against the deals of 1990 and 1993, which shrank the deficit more than twice as much and laid the groundwork for the recovery that made this hootenanny possible. Those showdowns were bloody, fratricidal affairs that left many in both parties wondering why they bothered in the first place. In 1990 George Bush broke a campaign promise and raised taxes; he never regained the public's trust...
...bipartisan budget deal, which is scheduled to erase the federal deficit by 2002, was the result of summer-long negotiations between Congressional Republicans and the White House. While the legislation contains child tax credits and capital gains tax cuts--longtime Republican priorities--the pact largely reflects the Clinton administration's higher education goals...
...believe the best tax rate is the one that's the lowest possible for the greatest number of Americans. The way to get rates down without increasing the deficit is by eliminating loopholes that benefit a few and leave the rest of us paying higher taxes than we otherwise would have...
WHAT KILLED THE BOOM The strain of being both an economic and a military superpower started to show. The federal deficit in 1959 jumped to 2.6% of gross domestic product, the largest since 1946. By the 1960s, ambitious social programs and the widening war in Vietnam led to higher taxes, while economies in Europe and Asia began to make inroads against...