Word: recessions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Ashong's big break came over winter recess when he auditioned for the part in New York City. He received a callback, and this past Friday, got the news that he had the role...
...Simpson had been on the witness stand for most of two hours last Friday afternoon when the judge took a brief recess. Two elderly women who had occupied coveted seats available to the public decided they had heard enough. Leaving the Santa Monica, California, courthouse, one of them said, "Well, you either believe the whole thing...
...sudden the do-nothing Congress is doing everything at once. Why? Fear. A Washington adage says members of Congress care about only three things: getting re-elected, getting re-elected and getting re-elected. When Republicans returned from their July 4 recess, a privately distributed poll by G.O.P. pollster Richard Wirthlin showed that voters would prefer a Democrat to a Republican as their representative by 5 percentage points. In 1994 it took only a 2-point advantage the other way round for Republicans to win control of the House and the Senate...
...such tough features as a projected $60 billion cut in total federal spending for welfare and food stamps over the next six years and limits on aid to noncitizens, Clinton will be in a box if the bill in its present form hits his desk before the August recess. If he vetoes it--which is likely, according to senior adviser George Stephanopoulos--the G.O.P. can argue that he "talks right and negotiates left." If he signs it, he will face the wrath of party liberals at the convention...
...that any reform bill include politically unpalatable changes in Medicaid. The White House welcomed the news Friday and said that the prospects for passing a welfare overhaul bill this year have brightened considerably. Congress hopes to have a welfare reform bill on the President's desk before the August recess. Clinton has already vetoed two welfare reform bills that included turning Medicaid into block grants controlled by the states. "President Clinton will undoubtedly face a lot of pressure from liberal Democrats not to sign a welfare bill," says TIME's James Carney. "But early indications show that he will sign...