Word: perking
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Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was a reluctant politician. He did not crave attention or court stardom. He treated power not as a perk but as a privilege. He desperately believed that there could be peace in the Middle East, but he never forgot that peace was hard and painful and still good...
House Majority Leader Dick Armey told a Capitol news conference today that when the House votes on lobbying reform in the next few weeks, the Senate-passed rules might be weakened to allow lawmakers to go on charity golf, tennis and ski trips. "This is a much-loved perk, and Armey may be floating this idea to see what the response would be," comments TIME's Jeff Birnbaum. In addition to banning charity trips, the Senate bill forbids accepting gifts worth more than $50 and more than $100 worth of gifts from any single source in one year. Armey said...
...access is fast becoming the cool perk of the 1990s, and probably beyond. Those of us who choose more altruistic--and probably lower-paying--pursuits will almost certainly shell out some 'Net funds to save money on communication in general, and they'll probably help press local governments to fund' Net access for the greater community...
...foreign investors who might then choose to put their money in dollar-denominated bonds and thus strengthen demand for that currency. The government also unveiled an emergency plan to lower the yen by, among other things, spending more on public works, which would presumably stimulate the economy and thus perk up demand for imports. But American economists reacted as if they had seen it all before. "If Japan really wanted to knock down the yen, they'd give in on motor vehicles," said Allen Sinai, the chief economist for Lehman Bros...
...wanted to wage during the first 100 days. But just wait until the next hundred. The new Republican majority in Congress is getting ready to position Democrats as die-hard defenders of preferential treatment for minorities. (The fact that affirmative action also benefits women, making it potentially a bipartisan perk, isn't mentioned much in the present debate.) Last week Senate majority leader and presidential candidate Bob Dole let drop on NBC's Meet the Press that he had asked the Congressional Research Service to compile a list of all bills that offer special preferences for minorities. While acknowledging America...