Word: pools
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...advisory group is looking at the pool of candidates and sifting through to see which candidates should go to the next stage," Marshall said...
...sound like trickle-down economics, but the process is much more reliable. Eliminating the deficit would ease the government's demands on America's already shallow pool of savings, which by some estimates keeps interest rates percentage points higher than they would be under a balanced budget. Tear up Uncle Sam's credit card, and interest rates drop, allowing the private sector to grow as the government retreats. "What's at stake is nothing less than rekindling the American Dream," says Matthew Miller, a former Clinton budget official who quit this year over the White House's refusal to continue...
...good news spreading to their paychecks. Economists say the nation's anemic savings rate of 4%, in contrast to Germany's 12% and Japan's 17%, is a key reason behind the stagnation in many workers' wages since 1973. If the U.S. government stops depleting America's savings pool, it would lower businesses' costs of borrowing and enable them to invest in the new equipment that makes their employees more productive, thus fattening their paychecks. Lower rates would also help companies create jobs by building new factories and opening new shops. Roger Brinner, chief economist with the forecasting firm DRI/McGraw-Hill...
...modern mediator between the goddesses onscreen and the mortals in the theater seats. She's the star you could take home to Mom. With her tousled but well-scrubbed blondness, she looks as if she would be at ease in a law office or a pta car pool. Her suburban incandescence is warm, not scalding. Ryan is the low-calorie, '90s incarnation of celebrity: Star Lite...
...Krueger. Neither is a member of the Christian Coalition yet, but they love politics and professed to like the Coalition's approach. So with an eye toward helping the Coalition raise money, they happily played host to 10 current and potential contributors at their huge, old house, overlooking a pool, a tennis court and 56 rural hectares. George Fellendorf, a semiretired teacher of the deaf who is the state chapter's unpaid chairman, told Reed that after 18 months of organizing, it was time for the state association to get a full-time, paid executive director...