Word: lethality
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...they're right, it's lethal, and if they're wrong, it's careless," he says...
...rich enjoy a secret tax code written just for them--notwithstanding that his flat tax could favor the rich even more effectively. But his appeal is not only to apparent fairness and simplicity, the allure of a tax return no bigger than a postcard. The plan is also a lethal attack on the whole "culture of Washington," which he proposes to starve to death. Convinced that cutting taxes will stimulate the economy, Forbes doesn't worry much about estimates that his plan might swell the deficit anywhere between $40 billion and $182 billion a year. He dwells instead...
...would have become the second woman executed in the U.S. since capital punishment was reinstated in 1976, but hours before Guinevere Garcia's scheduled lethal injection, Illinois Governor Jim Edgar commuted her sentence to life in prison without parole. Edgar said he acted not because of Garcia's troubled background but because the case was one in which the punishment did not fit Garcia's 1991 crime of having killed her husband during a botched robbery...
...five years in prison and a $10,000 fine in the deaths of Marjorie Wantz and Sherry Miller. Miller, 48, who had multiple sclerosis, died after inhaling carbon monoxide through a mask. Wantz, who suffered from chronic pelvic pain, died after using a Kevorkian device that injected lethal drugs into her system. The trial is scheduled to begin April 1. Kevorkian was already scheduled to stand trial beginning February 12 for assisting two other suicides in Michigan...
...recess, Gingrich drilled his troops on how to sell his yet-to-be-unveiled plan to "save Medicare," loading them down with packets full of talking points, charts and graphs. But when work resumed in the fall, the Democrats suddenly rose from the dead and struck back with a lethal message. The Medicare rescue, they charged, was actually just a way to give a tax break to the rich by robbing from the old. Gingrich had known all along that $245 billion in tax cuts over seven years would be hard to explain and easy to attack. But he didn...