Word: leveller
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...extent of corruption at a national level emerged last week in a report on the state purchase of grain. Out of a total of $65 billion set aside to buy grain from farmers since 1992, $25 billion--40%--had disappeared. Investigators found that much of the missing money had gone into luxury condominiums, futures trading and the purchase of cars and mobile phones--the kind of graft that makes the short-tempered Zhu go ballistic...
Reiner, 51, is author and chief promoter of one of the more ambitious pieces of social legislation ever crafted on a state level. Picking up where the U.S. Congress left off when a proposed $368 billion federal tobacco lawsuit settlement was killed in June, Prop 10 would add a 50[cent] tax to each pack of cigarettes sold in California. The money, up to $700 million a year, would be channeled into antitobacco programs and early-childhood health and education. The higher prices would result in an estimated 25% drop in smoking--and consequent savings in the state...
...citizens have traditionally been very tolerant," Cloud says. "But Hawaiians are going through a wrenching internal debate: Should they extend the spirit of aloha to gay couples even if same-sex marriage does not conform to the public's religious values?" Moving from the state to the national level, senior writer Richard Lacayo examines the emergence of gay politics into the mainstream of American political life. "With Christian conservatives so powerful within the G.O.P.," Lacayo says, "don't count on much compromise...
...market tanked, analysts were marking down casino stocks on the fundamentals--too much capacity--and they are worried that this latest building boom will crap out. The Vegas Valley, for instance, is heading into a glut of 127,000 hotel rooms--up a scary 20% from the current level. That's one reason gaming stocks such as Mirage's have lost one-third to one-half of their value in the past year. The weakening global economy is also taking its toll. The high rollers from Asia, the focus of a lot of attention, are nursing their bank accounts...
...disaster" as the WB battled for affiliates with the other start-up network, UPN. Traditionally, networks pay affiliates to carry their programming, but the WB offered no payments and went even further, asking the stations to remit a portion of their profits once they reached a certain level. Kellner's selling points were his team and the involvement of Warner Bros. and Tribune, but he was able to persuade only 54 stations to sign up. UPN, offering the traditional terms, started with nearly twice that many. Since then, though, the number of WB affiliates has grown...