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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...more than $2 trillion to the national debt. Or you can look at the annual record and watch the deficits mount. In the Reagan-Bush years to date, the average annual deficit has been about $200 billion. In six of those 11 years, the actual amount was well in excess of $200 billion, and this year -- despite the much ballyhooed 1990 "budget agreement" between Congress and the White House -- it will explode to some $400 billion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Federal Deficit | 6/22/1992 | See Source »

...only other Democratic candidate who lasted until the later primaries was former California Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr., who did not accept individual contributions in excess of $100, well below the $250 minimum reporting amount...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PROFESSORIAL CONTRIBUTIONS | 6/4/1992 | See Source »

Granted, my entry tutor is a doctor in residence at a Boston hospital--not the kind of job that provides excess leisure time. But regardless of profession, it seems to me Dunster tutors have a minimal commitment to the house. The effort expended by the four grill managers and the two house committee chairs to foster a sense of community in Dunster dwarfs anything I've seen on the part of the tutors...

Author: By Joshua W. Shenk, | Title: On the Harvard Dole | 6/2/1992 | See Source »

Smoking Gun, Nonstop Excess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Short Takes: May 25, 1992 | 5/25/1992 | See Source »

...chases, lung cancer is probably the last thing Riggs (Mel Gibson) needs to worry about. The last thing the makers of LETHAL WEAPON 3 worried about was a complex story -- it's simply about stolen guns. The idea was to push the action to a level of excess where it turns parodistically comic, and this is done expertly. They've brought back Joe Pesci as a goofy cop buff, added Rene Russo as the love interest for Riggs -- a policewoman as crazily brave as he is -- and made a cheerfully amoral movie that cannily caters to and satirizes our passion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Short Takes: May 25, 1992 | 5/25/1992 | See Source »

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