Word: fed
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...penalize a hardware salesman showing a catalog to a client while sipping Sanka, yet allow a movie mogul to fully deduct a $3,700 ride on the Concorde and a $600 bungalow at the Beverly Hills Hotel. On the other hand, it isn't Sanka-sipping salesmen but well-fed executives who most savor the deduction and spark the most resentment. And after all, why should a single nickel be deductible at a place like The Men's Club, a lavish topless joint in Dallas, where up to 25% of the clientele are on expense accounts...
...time the computer disk was ready to be hand-carried to Capitol Hill, where it would be fed into the TelePrompTer, Clinton had already climbed into the limo with Hillary. They reconciled the penultimate draft with Begala's last attempt at a conclusion as they rode to the Capitol. Begala got into the van with Stephanopoulos, grateful that Clinton is always his own best speechwriter...
...born Yale University historian Paul Kennedy became a mass-market commodity with the publication of his The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers in 1987, a cross-century, cross-cultural study of the vital link between economic and military power. So what if Kennedy -- never a popularizer -- force-fed readers far more about the Habsburg Empire than most of them ever wanted to know? What mattered was that his thesis (a debt-ridden U.S. was fast running the risk of "imperial overstretch") perfectly captured the edgy mood of the late Reagan years, as opinion leaders began to brood that...
...TIME/CNN poll showed respondents approving the plan 62% to 27%. Clinton also got a boost from Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, a stalwart conservative, who not only commended the President but also indicated that the Fed would cooperate by holding down interest rates to soften the bite of higher taxes. But the first barrage of phone calls to Congress was highly negative, and there is something in the plan to offend almost every interest employing a lobbyist with an in at a particular congressional committee. Budget Director Leon Panetta told the Washington Post that chances of congressional passage are only...
True, but many Montgomery County voters are even more fed up with bad schools, murderous streets, pink slips and health-care nightmares. "People are willing to pay more as long as they understand where the money is going," says Dayton Mayor Richard Dixon, a Democrat. As proof, he notes that local voters have approved three tax increases...