Word: equalling
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Captain Brad Konik as well has led the team in more ways than just motivation. His 17 points (13 in the ECAC, possibly still the league leader depending on other players Saturday night) put him on a pace for a 60 point season--equal to the First-Team All-American year Steve Martins '95 had in the '93-'94 season...
...Turkish government presented equal gifts to Princeton, Georgetown and the University of Chicago...
...threat of a default on the national debt, that was really more about spin than substance. The G.O.P. had long intended to use the need to lift the debt ceiling to gain leverage in budget negotiations; the Administration had an equal interest in casting the Republicans as reckless for holding the nation's credit hostage to "extreme" demands. Both sides, however, were quietly counting on Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin to stave off an actual default through internal bookkeeping changes--and last Wednesday he came through. He used an arcane process called "disinvestment," which enabled him to shift tens of billions...
...House has already contrived a new formula, which the initial Senate plan fails to match. The committee has already promised Texas an additional $5 billion over seven years, but the state's other Senator, Kay Bailey Hutchison, wants more. Unless an extra $158 million is allotted (which would equal the House sum), Hutchison says, she will vote against the vital reconciliation bill. "I really don't get it," says Gramm, peering over his gold-rimmed aviator glasses, his Muppet-like head bobbing plaintively, "but this is the be-all and end-all for Kay. I don't care about this...
...whatever you want to do" and "if you have what it takes" are rapidly becoming restricted to an elite. So it isn't that capitalism has inherent problems, but rather that America is losing its vision of what capitalism is. Part of a government for a people is equal opportunity, and if our public services are sacrificed for the good of the few, then the many, those that this country is supposedly run by and for, will have little or no opportunity to make their...