Word: poste
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...rise to it and who now deserve their money back--to do with as they see fit. As a Wall Street Journal editorial-page headline framed the issue last week, WHOSE SURPLUS IS IT, ANYWAY? Indeed, Americans now pay an amount in taxes equal to 20.7% of gdp, a post-World War II high that is up from just over 18% 10 years ago. Nor are many economists bummed by the fact that most of the benefits that would flow from the G.O.P. cuts would accrue to upper-bracket taxpayers, since they have been the hardest hit by tax increases...
...consider the Confederate marching song, which was played at Jefferson Davis' inauguration, to be nostalgic for slavery. Rehnquist is not commenting publicly, but we do have some insight into what else he's doing in his downtime. Earlier this month, he entered, and won, a contest in the Washington Post's Dr. Gridlock column by figuring out that a license plate reading 1 DIV 0 referred to an Infiniti. He's sure to clean up during Supreme Court Justice Week on Jeopardy...
...prestigious Shorenstein Center Director post opened up earlier this year after Marvin Kalb announced his intention to leave the job to direct the Center's office in Washington, D.C.. Kalb became the center's first director in 1986, after serving as Chief Diplomatic Correspondent for CBS News and a moderator of "Meet the Press...
Gartner also won a Pulitzer Prize--the 1997 award for editorial writing--before assuming the top post at NBC. In 1994, he was an Institute of Politics fellow, and led a study group on the relationship between media and politics...
Another published report had named Newsweek Assistant Managing Editor Evan Thomas as an additional candidate for the post, but Burke said that Thomas announced last week that he will remain at Newsweek...