Word: planning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Under no circumstances will I vote to spend one penny of the Social Security trust fund on anything but Social Security," declaimed DeLay at the launch. Yet just hours later, the Republican-led Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimated that the GOP's current spending plan for next year would siphon at least $18 billion of the fund's surplus. And that, it said, was a conservative estimate. DeLay and the rest of the GOP leadership had little to say about the apparently glaring contradiction; the GOP rank and file sound worried. Under nocircumstances? "That's kind of an absolute statement...
...Republicans can still keep their promise. But to do it they'll have to continue to perform these ridiculous contortions that Clinton and the Democrats will have a field day with." Such as budgeting the 2000 census - on the calendar since 1789 - as an "emergency." Such as that plan to create a phantom "13th month" to hide more spending-cap spillover. Such as messing with the $2,000 earned income tax credits that go to the working poor, or asking the states to hand back billions in unused welfare money...
...would have to negotiate "on his knees" to avoid dipping into the Social Security pool for his own programs. Well, they've spent more than that, and the Social Security surplus is indeed in danger. So when Clinton took some time at the microphones Thursday to diss the Republican plan, he was so confident he actually broke into laughter. "It's a familiar dance," says Dickerson. Maybe someday they'll learn how to lead...
This is the era of the long-distance rate war. Flipping channels on an average night of television viewing, it seems the ads are everywhere, each offering a different plan and a different great deal. In fields, across the Golden Gate, and in the streets of Manhattan, giant coins rumble through the landscape announcing the deals...
Some of those coins rolled back into Harvard students' pockets last week as a committee of Undergraduate Council members and University Information Systems (UIS) officials announced a new rate plan for Harvard long distance, cutting the flat-rate plan by three cents a minute and lowering other rates as well as creating a new 8-cents-anytime plan with a $5.95 monthly...