Word: dividenders
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...perhaps for as long as a decade or more -- Bush's plan might actually inflate defense spending. Nevertheless, as a political matter, the prospect of moving toward a de-nuked world is probably something most people would gladly pay for, and it seems reasonable to assume that a peace dividend will eventually be realized. In any event, none of those who would replace Bush have the stature to credibly challenge the course...
Also at the press conference, Dinkins struck what is likely to be a common theme for Democrats as the 1992 election year approaches, calling for a "peace dividend" to deal with national crises, like the spread of AIDS and urban crime...
...Bingham companies for $448 million by Barry Bingham Sr., then 79. His son and namesake unsurprisingly felt that an adult lifetime of corporate devotion entitled him to the lion's share of control. Two wayward sisters, whom Barry Jr. had disenfranchised, equally unsurprisingly felt entitled to more than a dividend of one-half of 1% a year on the value of their holdings. The tragedy was that both sides rejected rational compromise because their concern was being judged right -- with their father as arbiter, a role he characteristically ducked by selling...
...military services, the Bush Administration, the Congress -- and a host of defense contractors eager to turn the war-born popularity of their fearsome weapons into a new splurge of arms spending and big profits. Such is the congressional passion for these high-tech marvels that a new "war dividend" of great value to many people -- but decidedly not to the beleaguered American taxpayer -- is being doled out on Capitol Hill...
...provide any kind of dividend," she said. "Now no more money is available for domestic problems...