Word: pegging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Will that be enough to rekindle the support that actually had Perot leading in some polls last spring? Highly doubtful. Surveys conducted by the Clinton camp agree with a published poll showing that nearly three-quarters of Americans now have no intention of voting for Perot; Bush's aides peg Perot's support at no more than...
...with it at all -- that is, by blaming Congress and calling for a balanced-budget amendment. The Democrats' likely presidential nominee, Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton, is on somewhat firmer ground when he advocates slower growth in outlays for Social Security and Medicare in addition to "means testing" that would peg the level of benefits to a recipient's income. Those measures at least would slow the deficit's growth. But Clinton has yet to offer a persuasive plan for reducing the deficit, and he is blowing smoke when he argues that a middle-class tax cut paid for by imposing...
...GREAT MOUSE DETECTIVE. In this 1986 animated feature, now revived for a new generation, a mouse chanteuse performs the first tentative striptease in a Disney cartoon. Otherwise, there's not much momentous in this story of some adorable rodents and a peg-legged bat named Fidgit -- just some clever cartoonists having a holiday on mice...
Tsongas waves off such pessimism. He beat the lymphoma that drove him from the Senate in 1984. When he became the first announced Democrat in April 1991, skeptics predicted he would be an ex-candidate by last Labor Day. Now, says his aide Peg Connolly, "Paul is suffering a serious case of self- confidence." How confident? For months, he says in utter seriousness, he has been making a list of possible running mates and Cabinet appointees...
...them. Instead, it must rely on western governments to do so. At the same time, preparations for full membership should move forward...A plausible financial package to back the Russian programme should be set as follows: Russia will need a stabilisation fund of around $5 billion to help peg the newly convertible rouble...In addition, Russia should receive in 1992 around $6 billion of general balance-of-payments support, and another $6 billion of food...