Word: reductionism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Such old-fashioned politicking, quietly replayed across a belt of carefully chosen Western and Midwestern cities and towns this spring, finally caught up last week with Clinton's new-fashioned energy tax. The well-organized lobbying buried the $72 billion BTU levy that was the centerpiece of the President's...
The main elements of the deal include a reduction by a quarter to a third in the $70 billion the Administration's proposed energy tax is supposed to raise over the next five years. That amount would be made up by cuts in Medicare spending. Administration officials note that the...
Over the weekend, Bentsen cut short his trip and returned to Washington to help Clinton plot strategy. He admits to being pleased by the President's recent moves toward the center. "That appeals to my views," he told TIME on Saturday as he prepared to leave Europe. "Obviously there were...
As the House of Representatives began to vote on his $246 billion deficit- reduction plan last Thursday night, Clinton calculated that he had perhaps one or two votes more than the 217 he needed for passage. But halfway into the 15-minute voting period, two Democrats the White House thought...
Clinton's win in the House would have been broader had public opinion -- led by the deficit-reduction seminars conducted by Ross Perot and by Clinton at his December economic summit -- not moved far ahead of the President in January. The first sign that the Great Listener had lost touch...