Word: offsets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After months of talking about it, Republicans finally announced a plan of bold spending cuts designed to balance the budget by 2002. Senate leaders proposed slashing nearly $1 trillion during the next seven years. A House plan foresaw even deeper cuts: $1.4 trillion worth, the extra trims needed to offset a $350 billion tax cut. The G.O.P. lawmakers said they would chop billions from projected outlays for Medicare and Medicaid, eliminate scores of federal social programs and abolish the Commerce Department. (House Republicans would also ax the Education and Energy departments.) Democrats promptly labeled the proposals unfair to working families...
...plaques unjustified? The plaques are quite explicit. They argue that the building was built under the aegis of the Christian religion and they admonish the viewers to follow the teachings of both the Old and New Testaments. That message, nailed to the wall of the library, cannot be offset by a small disclaimer...
Jackson defended affirmative action, saying that it should be used to 'offset negative action," such as discrimination...
...group is also collecting school supplies at its table in Harkness Commons and at each event it holds this week in order to help offset shortages of educational materials in Bosnian schools...
...Crimson would not quit. Winters and Colligan proceeded to take over the game, as Harvard shifted into a quick-strike offense to offset Yale's attempts to drain the clock...