Word: jims
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Newt Gingrich, cited tax increases of $150 billion. The issue has tremendous political force, especially in a time of less than 2% annual economic growth. The Bush team has charged that Clinton's taxes would force many small businesses to close and cost many people their jobs. Moreover, says Jim Cicconi, issues director for the Bush-Quayle campaign, "the dirty little secret of this plan is that to raise the revenues they need on the tax side to pay for the programs they want, they have to drop the ((higher)) tax brackets into the middle class." But Clinton advisers suggest...
...JIM BAKER's return to the president's side has been described to key Republicans as the "cold war pivot." Having teamed up with Bush to kiss the communist threat goodbye, the honchos were told, Baker will now act as a sort of deputy President, managing the campaign, then leading a sweeping domestic agenda during a second Bush term. But the truth is that Baker is only making an emergency house call as Mr. Fix-It. If Bush wins re-election, Baker has told friends that he will help tool up a domestic strategy and hire the right folks...
...million for these 320 acres of land, intending to develop it for mixed commercial-residential use. This is still mixed use: Cooke has use for free land and Wilder for political glory. Virginians with sharp ears could catch the sound of a state pocket being picked. Says Congressman Jim Moran of a plan that would bring the city few economic perks: "It is a classic case of how not to conduct public policy." Officials in Washington could only fear that getting Skinned meant the town would be rubbed off the map. "Brooklyn has never been the same since the Dodgers...
...Well, we're having a debate on that right now. Jim Burke, who heads our private-sector task force, believes -- and I think he's right -- that in the second term we ought to put more emphasis on the demand side, on treatment and education and prevention. I'm not sure how much, whether it will be flipped two-thirds, one-third. But I think the more we do in that the better...
Still down in the polls, George Bush calls on an old friend to help him come from behind. But can Jim Baker map a winning strategy for a second term...