Word: oiled
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Dudayev: The U.S. could play the most vital role as a guarantor of any potential agreements as well as a partner interested in producing and transporting oil and in maintaining stability...
...touch. But for the most part his populism identifies the standard G.O.P. villain, Washington. Steve Forbes? Enough said. As for Dole, his parents were so poor that during the Depression they moved the family to the basement of their house so they could rent the main floor to an oil company manager. But his solutions for the castoffs of the new economy are pretty much straight from the G.O.P. playbook: a balanced budget, less government...
Even as Dole denounced the Forbes tax plan as "snake oil" and Gingrich branded part of it "nonsense," the two Washingtonians found themselves rebuked by none other than House majority leader Dick Armey, a longtime flat-tax champion. "In politics, panicky candidates sometimes say things they never live down," Armey warned. "In 1980 George Bush mischaracterized Reagan's policies as 'voodoo economics,' and it haunted him for the rest of his career," Armey argued. "The flat tax is the future of the Republican Party." As Armey and Dole hashed out the details of the congressional schedule in the Senate cloakroom...
...when wealth was created so instantly through the market as it is today," says Alan Brinkley, professor of history at Columbia University. "Certainly there were many people who rose from modest wealth to vast riches over a lifetime at the turn of the century--specifically, those in railroads, steel, oil and the big, rapidly growing industries of the time. But it was nothing like the people today who are worth a few hundred thousand dollars one day and take their companies public the next and become billionaires...
...Massachusetts has probably the most acute problem with excess beds in the country," he told the audience. "The 53 hospitals within Route 495 are run at about 15 percent of capacity. And hospitals, like oil refineries and airlines, have costs that are largely fixed...