Word: hikes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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CONSIDER FOR A MOMENT THE FInancial circumstances of an up-and-coming colleague or neighbor. Owns a nice house? Drives a new car? Dines out a lot? Appears calm even when discussing college tuition or the latest property-tax hike? Now take a good guess at his or her income. If it doesn't add up to the outgo, it's likely that the shortfall is being covered by one of the most important -- but little discussed -- determinants of baby-boomer wealth in the 1990s: family inheritance...
Clinton has scheduled private briefings this week to consider some of the tough choices that he gave short shrift during the economic summit: a hike in the gasoline tax, a new national sales tax and a tax on employer-provided medical insurance -- each of which could be rebated to lower- and middle- income taxpayers. Another option: "redefine" Clinton's pledge by vowing to eliminate the deficit by the end of his second term...
...lighting candles for Christmas. That would be silly. And I won't be swapping Hannukah presents. Equally absurd. Hannukah Harry, take a hike. Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night...
Disney's president, Frank G. Wells, also dumped $60 million of his stock on Tuesday. Several major recording artists are reportedly renegotiating their publishing rights contracts to avoid a possible tax hike. And Morgan Stanley, the investment banking firm, is offering to pay bonuses early to duck the proposed rate increases. This isn't the sort of leadership that Eisner should be offering at this key crossroads...
...everything from see the start of a coup to hike through the Rancho Grande rainforest in Venezuela; learn the lambada and other Carnival dances in Rio; party with Desmond Tutu, the mayor of Cape Town, South African students and several ANC representatives at the Bishopscourt (Tutu's residence) in Cape Town; witness and anti-Moi riot in Nairobi, Kenya; learn mantras at the Madurai Temple in India; visit biotechnology production plants, rubber plantations and the beach in Malaysia; visit the Hsin-Chu Science Park in Taiwan; tour Guangzhou (Canton) in Southern China with the mayor to several of Southern China...