Word: deficits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Arizona outscored South Alabama 22-4 in the final seven and a half minutes to overcome a 10-point deficit...
...allowances for Social Security, and the measure failed in the House. Two years later, Lott joined with Democrats to override Reagan's veto of a pork-larded highway bill, explaining that he wanted some of that spending for his district. And in 1990 he opposed President Bush over a deficit-reduction package that included both spending cuts and the "new taxes" Bush had forsworn...
Social Security, however, is not in crisis. In fact, Social Security has never added a penny to the federal deficit. Over the past 62 years, its payroll taxes have brought in more than they have paid out. It is Social Security's surplus that finances part of the national debt. Over the next 75, however, the program is out of balance, and this is the grain of truth behind the crisis rhetoric. The program faces an actuarial imbalance of 2.17 percent. That means that over the next 75 years, Social Security will be expected to pay out 2.17 percent more...
...school committee was first able to reduce the deficit from an initial $3.7 million to $2.6 million thanks to increased funding from the state, fewer students enrolling at the Benjamin Benneker charter school than anticipated and revised health insurance and pension plan costs...
Referring to last year's $1.2 million deficit--which cost 18 elementary school teachers their jobs--Turkel said that by giving the committee a deficit figure early in the game, "we won't have to go through that agony again...