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...Democrats are also planning to stick to the argument that a big tax cut means you can forget about using the burgeoning federal budget surplus to pay down the national debt. In an adroit bit of political gamesmanship, Bill Clinton played up the goal of debt elimination last week when he unveiled new White House budget calculations that show the total surplus over the next 10 years rising to nearly $5 trillion, an $800 billion increase over the last estimate issued just six months ago. ?We should be shooting for a debt-free America by the end of the decade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is a Tax Cut the Right Remedy? | 12/30/2000 | See Source »

...takes two to play political football. The White House's frenzied attempts to protect its economic halo - "No economist thought we could continue to grow at 5 percent a year indefinitely," Clinton reminded Dan Rather on Monday - could certainly be considered gamesmanship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Whose Slowdown Is It, Anyway? | 12/22/2000 | See Source »

...becoming a great man." Bobby's well-documented life and legend are re-examined here with moral clarity, psychological subtlety and a bracing dramatic pace. 3 A HEARTBREAKING WORK OF STAGGERING GENIUS Dave Eggers tricks out his riveting memoir with an ironic title and plenty of literary gamesmanship, but the story he tells is indeed heartbreaking: the death of his parents and his subsequent guardianship of his younger brother. His book shows how laughter is sometimes the only medicine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books | 12/18/2000 | See Source »

...HEARTBREAKING WORK OF STAGGERING GENIUS: Dave Eggers tricks out his riveting memoir with an ironic title and plenty of literary gamesmanship, but the story he tells is indeed heartbreaking: the death of his parents and his subsequent guardianship of his younger brother. His book shows how laughter is sometimes the only medicine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best Books 2000 | 12/7/2000 | See Source »

...lawyers, a traditionally liberal sector of the bar. Recently, the justices have had tense relations with Governor Jeb Bush and Florida Republicans. In April the court rejected rules he backed to speed up death-penalty appeals. Bush responded by charging the court with engaging in "unnecessary delay and legal gamesmanship" in capital cases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Election 2000: How We Got Here | 11/27/2000 | See Source »

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