Word: preferments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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CAPTION: If your company needed to cut expenses in order to stay in business, would you prefer they...
Economists prefer to think of federal deficits in terms of their percentage of the gross domestic product. But here too, the news is not good. Back in the days of Presidents Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon, deficits generally hovered at a relatively harmless 1% or 2% of gdp, except for a brief uptick to 3% at the end of the Johnson Administration to help pay for the Vietnam War. In contrast, during the Reagan-Bush years, the deficit's share of gdp shot up to between 3% and 7%, meaning that government red ink was weighing far more heavily...
...does not want to be adored. He'd prefer to be shocking -- and well paid. For the most part, he lets his music speak for itself because he knows trying to reason with his critics is wasting time. "The way I rap, and what I rap about, is based in reality," he says angrily. "I don't really care what people who don't give me a chance...
Bush refused to engage Perot directly, saying he would prefer to wait until the "time warp" of summer has given way to the fall battle. But the press conference also emphasized just how out of touch Bush seems. When a reporter asked whether the President's low standing in the polls was not a rejection of his message, Bush's fuzzy answer hardly suggested a firm fix on the public mood: "I don't think so, because you ask in these deadly polls that you read all the time, you know, about -- relating to issues -- and it's vague...
THOSE WHO KNOW Dunne are happy topatiently discuss her accomplishments, but theyclearly prefer to steer the conversation away fromDunne's visual impairment...