Word: minuses
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Wyss figures the economy is slowing enough to reduce the "core rate" of inflation--the underlying trend, minus usually volatile food and energy prices--to about 2.5% a year. That is believed to be just about Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan's target. Result: after about a year of "below-trend" growth, output could be able to speed up again. Wyss figures the economy has the potential to grow almost 4% annually over the next 10 years...
...search committee consists of the Corporation--minus Rudenstine--and three Overseers...
...team with less depth than Harvard (1-1) might be worried at the prospect of kicking off its conference schedule minus three of its key contributors. Fortunately for the Crimson, though, when Coach Tim Wheaton goes out shopping for recruits in the off-season, talent is one item he likes to order in bulk...
...some Democrats, including Lieberman, have been willing to consider the idea. But Gore trashed its trillion-dollar costs and came up with his own idea for tax-free investment accounts in addition to Social Security (that lets him call his plan "Social Security Plus" and Bush's "Social Security Minus"). Next came Gore's mild distortion of Texas' budget shortfall--saying Bush had squandered the surplus on a "tax cut for the wealthy," when more money went to give teachers a pay raise. Then came his attacks on Dick Cheney's voting record in the House (never mind that Gore...
...accounts," Gore told TIME, "but they should come on top of the foundation of Social Security. That's why I call it Social Security Plus. And the difference is, Governor Bush proposes to drain $1 trillion out of the Social Security Trust Fund, which makes his plan Social Security Minus." (For more excerpts from the interview, visit time.com...