Word: knowns
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first technique the House leadership employed was to take perfectly predictable expenses, like planned defense appropriations and the 2000 Census, and call them "emergency" spending, which is outside the caps (but still must come from other revenues, like Social Security). With the second technique, known as "directed scorekeeping"--described by one Federal budget expert in private practice as "lying about the numbers"--they were able to get rid of over half of the remaining deficit...
Falling short of the mark by scoring a mere 130 points less than Brown and 75 less than Princeton, Harvard made its presence known as a future force in women's Ivy League swimming...
While the Sunday program concentrates on lesser known works, the Met Opera program, which airs Saturday afternoons beginning either at 12:30 or 1:30, usually focuses on "opera favorites...
Seldom has a company caught so much heat for a product it didn't invent, didn't make and didn't even yet have the rights to. But then again, seldom has there been a product as elegantly spooky as the bit of biotechnology known as Terminator. On Tuesday, agribiz giant Monsanto promised not to impose on its customers a technology that renders seeds sterile after the plant has ended its growth cycle. The boys down in the Monsanto accounting department saw this as an ingenious way to protect the company's investment by forcing farmers to buy new bags...
...cash-balance plans. The new model lets workers build up their nest eggs at a steadier pace and take the balance from job to job. It is more consistent with today's career cycle. But when IBM announced its conversion in May, thousands of middle-aged IBM workers, hardly known for their activism, began screaming that the switch promoted age discrimination...