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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Social Security enjoys a consensus: no one wants to touch it. With his Ph.D. in economics, Phil Gramm used to declare candidly that fiscal sanity demanded reforming Social Security, even if that meant trimming the benefits of the seniors currently receiving them. Now Gramm is leading the battle to phase out the earnings threshold that limits the benefits of well-off recipients. Wilson, like most of the others, is punting altogether. At a March 30 breakfast thrown for him by Henry Kissinger in New York City, Wilson deflected a question about Social Security: until the public is better educated about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DUCKS, FLIPS AND PANDERS | 4/17/1995 | See Source »

...John R. Moot, a longtime CCA member, said Malenfant represents "a major improvement over Phil Dowds...

Author: By Jeffrey N. Gell, | Title: CCA Ousts Dowds, Nominates Malenfant as New President | 4/11/1995 | See Source »

...great admirer of Phil Dowds," she said. "I would love to have him working on anything I'd love to accomplish...

Author: By Jeffrey N. Gell, | Title: CCA Ousts Dowds, Nominates Malenfant as New President | 4/11/1995 | See Source »

...think that there were some people who did not get along with Phil Dowds," he said. "Most people, with in the CCA, did. Phil was an active, vigorous leader...

Author: By Jeffrey N. Gell, | Title: CCA Ousts Dowds, Nominates Malenfant as New President | 4/11/1995 | See Source »

Four GOP presidential hopefuls --Phil Gramm,Pete Wilson,Arlen Specterand Bob Dornan - have asked New York Gov. George Pataki to derail Bob Dole's attempt to keep them off the state's primary ballot. Pataki has joined most other high-ranking New York Republicans in backing Dole for president.TIME chief political correspondent Michael Kramerexplains that under New York election rules, Dole could keep other names off the ballot in certain key congressional districts, unless his opponents engage in ruinously-expensive grass-roots efforts. Dole learned this trick the hard way back in 1988, when Vice President George Bush used...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRESSURING PATAKI | 4/11/1995 | See Source »

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