Word: ideas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...vote for a balanced-budget amendment failed. The first revenue vote was a tax hike in airline tickets. Funding for international family planning, seen as a pro-abortion vote, passed. And all the while, Gingrich and his lieutenants Tom DeLay and John Boehner had quietly begun floating the idea of separating tax cuts from balancing the budget. The idea was to strip the Democrats of their demagoguery: to avoid the charge, so effective in the last election, that Republicans just wanted to gut Medicare in order to cut taxes for rich people. The problem was that Gingrich laid...
...continued to preach with a passion, persuading followers to renounce their families, sex and drugs and to pool their money with promises of a voyage to salvation on a spaceship. A poster for an appearance at Canada College, in Redwood City, California, read, "If you have ever entertained the idea that there may be a real, physical level beyond the Earth's confines, you will want to attend this meeting." The auditorium was packed...
...Administration System that would cost $649 million and be in operation by the early '80s. The IRS presented the plan to Congress shortly after the final agonies of Watergate (which featured a paranoid President who used the IRS to harass his enemies). Congress was spooked by the idea of a more centralized, all-knowing, all-seeing IRS, and said no thanks. The IRS was told simply to replace worn-out machines: nothing new and nothing fancy...
...breast cancer is low enough and the density of breast tissue may be great enough that annual mammograms are unlikely to spot anything suspicious. At 50 and above, as cancer rates rise and some breast tissue becomes more transparent to X rays, once-a-year exams are a good idea. Between the ages of 40 and 49, however, things have never been clear. Early this year the NCI convened a panel to resolve the question. But the group's findings, announced in late January, were more like nonfindings: the mammography decision, the panel said, was between a woman...
...example, Pepper got the idea that clandestine Army units were stalking King from a sensational series of articles by former Memphis Commercial Appeal reporter Steven G. Tompkins, who now serves as a spokesman for Georgia Governor Zell Miller. In 1993 Tompkins wrote, "On April 3 [the day before the killing], King returned to Memphis. Army agents from the 111th Military Intelligence Group shadowed his movements and monitored radio traffic from a sedan crammed with electronic equipment. Eight Green Beret soldiers from an 'Operation Detachment Alpha 184 Team' were also in Memphis carrying out an unknown mission." Although Tompkins wrote that...