Word: grosse
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First, White accuses the UC of gross financial misconduct. This assertion is made with little evidence. For the record, the current Council has a budget of about $146,000. Of this amount, almost $83,000 will be disbursed to over 100 campus organizations. Without these generous funds from the UC many of these groups could not even exist, or they would not be able to plan as many events as they do now. If. White considers this appropriation "the waste of another large chunk of the [money] which the council controls this year," then I will personally give...
...billion when Reagan came into office to $4.4 trillion when Clinton arrived. Though the White House also announced last week that this year's deficit will add just $255 billion -- not the $322 billion the CBO predicted in January -- even that figure amounts to an uncomfortable 4.1% of gross domestic product. So Penny has taken Clinton at his word about welcoming more input from Congress. He and Ohio Republican John Kasich are sponsoring a proposal for $103 billion in further cuts over five years. In the Senate, Bob Kerrey of Nebraska, who gave Clinton his one-vote margin of victory...
Give them all credit for taking on a thankless task. The Penny-Kasich House version includes a politically risky reduction of Medicare payments for recipients who earn $75,000 or more in adjusted gross income. Penny can afford the risk -- he has already announced that this will be his last term in the House. And Kerrey, who has no plans for retirement soon, knows what he's up against. "I could walk into the Senate with a headband in Japanese lettering, salute the Emperor and go to my death offering major deficit reduction," he laments. Should a ceremonial sword...
...livelier, more bracing, more free, more American. Limbaugh, Greenfield rightly says, "highlights how overwhelmingly banal the normal public discourse is. You get ingots of predigested mush that pass for political debate, and here's Rush with some sparkle to him." One could argue that the Rialto is already plenty gross and strange enough without any help from Stern, but he does manage sometimes to turn the vulgar sublime. One could also argue that the ascendance of such meretricious infotainers suggests something less than flattering about America in the late 20th century...
...fueled by low interest rates," notes Laura D'Andrea Tyson, Clinton's chief economic adviser (and Wescott's new boss). "But we would still like to see higher employment, the creation of more permanent jobs and stronger American exports." Tyson is forecasting modest 3% growth in the inflation-adjusted gross domestic product for the remainder of this year and into next. The question is whether even that pace can be maintained...