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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Somewhat comically, in our political culture of grievance, almost no one is willing to admit that times actually are pretty good. Polls show the citizenry fairly gloomy about general economic prospects even while conceding that their own prospects are O.K. Republicans are reduced to grumbling that modest, steady growth is not good enough and that Alan Greenspan and the Federal Reserve Board, rather than Clinton, deserve the credit in any event. (There's an inherent contradiction here: If the Fed sets the rate of growth, how can Clinton be blamed that it's not faster?) Clinton, meanwhile, has the happier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONVENTION '96: SITTING PRETTY | 9/2/1996 | See Source »

...finally and grudgingly, his own plan to balance the budget by 2002, and after two vetoes he reluctantly signed a Republican welfare-reform bill--to the screams of the left that he is committing the worst betrayal since that of Judas Iscariot. By Executive decree he has been pursuing modest and relatively uncontroversial but worthwhile goals--requiring teenage welfare mothers to live at home, for instance, and intensifying the pursuit of deadbeat dads, who have been forced to pay 40% more money for the support of their children. From Clinton's bully pulpit these days comes an endless succession...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONVENTION '96: THE LEARNING CURVE | 9/2/1996 | See Source »

...that tax cuts spur growth by giving consumers more money to spend and businessmen more to invest, thus creating additional tax revenues to help pay for the tax cuts. Dole is figuring that a quarter of the $551 billion in cuts can be recaptured this way. That's rather modest by the standards of earlier supply-siders, but still very iffy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALCULATING DOLE: 15% OR BUST | 8/19/1996 | See Source »

...advantages," the 73-year-old Kansan said, suggesting that, at the dawn of the new century, the cure to the nation's moral and social problems was a return to the values of his modest prairie upbringing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dole Accepts Nomination At Convention | 8/16/1996 | See Source »

...midweek Jewell, 33, was in a different media glare as the man whom FBI officials had identified as a suspect in the bombing. He sat on the steps outside the modest Atlanta apartment he shares with his mother and his dog while FBI agents searched the premises for evidence. Nearby, the guardians of the press kept vigil on the Rush Limbaugh weigh-alike with the forlorn white mustache. Technically Jewell has not been charged and is only a suspect. But tabloid journalism's hope for heroes had given way to its need for villains. SAINT OR SAVAGE?, the New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FROM FAME TO INFAMY | 8/12/1996 | See Source »

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