Word: karens
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...President Clinton during the months of negotiations. Back at the White House, the President was conciliatory, saying talks could be resumed by next Wednesday, and that a budget "is clearly within reach." Bob Dole took a similar line: "We stand ready to continue," he said. But TIME's Karen Tumulty says both sides may want simply to punt the budget football to the '96 elections. "If the negotiations are canceled and there's no deal, Bob Dole's presidential campaign gains what it most needs: a message." Moreover, Tumulty says that may be the only way to resolve their differences...
Three-quarters of EITC benefits go to workers making less than $15,000. Last year it paid $1,400 to Karen Montana, 30, a single mother of two children, ages 4 and 6. Her $13,550 salary as a Head Start teaching assistant in Los Angeles is too low for her to pay taxes, making her ineligible for the per-child credit. With the EITC she got last year, "I caught up on a furniture payment, visited my grandmother in Oakland, bought a bed instead of putting it on credit, and saved a little...
...House Chief of Staff Leon Panetta emerged from a three-hour meeting with Republican leaders on Friday, announcing the possibility of a stopgap spending measure that would send federal employees back to work while a budget is finalized. "The general tone has shifted among the principals," says Congressional correspondent Karen Tumulty. "They seen to be coming out of the negotiating rooms happy, rather than angry. So it looks like some progress is being made." Facing mounting criticism for continuing to receive paychecks while some 760,000 other federal employees face another week without pay, Congress, notes Tumulty, is anxious...
...CORRESPONDENT Karen Tumulty, the voyage to this year's Man of the Year cover began 14 months ago in an eight-seat commuter plane flying from Oklahoma City to Rochester, Minnesota, with a colorful but still relatively obscure U.S. Congressman named Newt Gingrich. Tumulty had just joined TIME's Washington bureau from the Los Angeles Times and was assigned to follow the Representative from Georgia who had suddenly grabbed the national spotlight by leading a conservative charge that took even his Republican Party compatriots by surprise. As one of just a few reporters on the road with Gingrich, Tumulty watched...
Following a scoreless second period, Princeton showed signs of life, taking just 1:08 to get on the board in the third. Tiger captain Karen Chernisky slid the puck past Crimson netminder Jen Bowdoin (19 saves) to pull the home team to within two goals...