Word: drafted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...White House acknowledged last week, there had been a collaborator. Barbara Feinman, a veteran book doctor, was hired by publisher Simon & Schuster to help organize the book and draft several chapters. Mrs. Clinton liked the initial chapters, say sources on Feinman's side. As the work progressed, Feinman stayed overnight at the White House and even accompanied the First Family to Jackson Hole, Wyoming, last summer. In October, according to Feinman's side, Mrs. Clinton called the writer to say the work was fine. But after Feinman returned from a trip to Italy, the publisher told her the First Lady...
...centerpiece is "The Tax Test:" twelve principles to guide the creation of a fairer, flatter and simpler tax code. Gingrich told reporters the proposal constitutes the beginning of "a very, very bold and very different new debate." Kemp challenged Clinton to appoint a bipartisan, blue ribbon commission to draft the sepcifics. But while well-intentioned, Kemp's commission is rooted in politics, notes TIME's Jeffrey Birnbaum. "The flat tax is the hottest new issue on the campaign trail and has launched Steve Forbes into second place," he says. Since Jack Kemp is a longtime flat tax advocate, it seems...
...reluctantly trot out his war wounds. Now he's practically flaunting them. The ad is meant to show Dole as something other than a Beltway big shot, to humanize the chilly candidate and contrast him with his putative opponent, a fellow who agonized about getting out of the draft. The ad harps on Dole's character largely because character is Dole's only message, and his staff hopes to compare his with that of the current occupant of the White House...
...capturing the excitement of the news and of the people who make it each week, and by recounting in full color the tales and the debates that form the first draft of history, we have the power to make the world--and you, and us--more interesting each week...
...replace the current five-rate system. But it will leave to the politicians the question whether to keep, trim or discard the mortgage-interest and charitable write-offs. It also will leave open the possibility of retaining the tax incentives for retirement plans like the 401(k). A partial draft of its report does not say where the flat rate or the personal exemption should be set. Although the draft does not contain it now, the report might even allow for the possibility of two rates...