Word: left
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Bush keeps his father's former aides on the periphery, and has left his campaign to Karl Rove, a brilliant personal friend who knows Bush a lot more than he knows about national campaigning...
What has hit home the most for me was befriending Chelie, a 15-year-old girl who lives in my boarding house. She left school a few years ago to earn money for her family and is up at dawn each day doing domestic chores until late in the evening. As a Harvard student, I complain about excessive homework, the lack of social life at school and what was served in the dining hall for dinner. The disparity between livelihoods is just so unbelievably vast. Who's the adult here? And this week, with this pained awareness of the grave...
...native of Indiana, Bate came to Harvard as an undergraduate--graduating summa cum laude in 1939--and never left...
...wouldn?t spark inflation. And it certainly would be preferable to frittering it away on new spending programs. But give Big Al his druthers, and he?d rather pay down the debt. It isn?t surprising that the Fed Chairman, whose speeches are the economic equivalent of Rorshach tests, left both sides with enough soundbites to claim his support. On his list of preferences, the tax cut ranks second. The Clinton plan certainly bears some characteristics of a spender?s plan ?- that?s certainly what the Republicans say. But the voters, so far, seem to see it the other...
...Greenspan left the question open, like a warning, and laid down his picks and pans: Debt reduction, which would lower interest rates and free up investment capital -- good. New spending, which neither party trusts the other to lay off of -- bad. Saving for the future ?- good. Putting all your eggs in one tax-cut basket and hoping for the best -? bad. All in all, Greenspan signed off on a rather conservative, rather Republican philosophy. It?s just that the Republican who?s getting all the credit for it is Bill Clinton...