Word: reformers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...budget is hammered out. In the next four weeks, Congress and the Bush Administration must raise the federal debt ceiling to $3.1 trillion, find a way to reduce next year's deficit -- on paper at least -- to $110 billion, and scrounge for funds to finance the drug war, educational reform and cleanups of the HUD mess and even of the storm-ravaged South Carolina coast...
...politically irresistible orgy of tax reduction. By voting to fulfill George Bush's campaign promise and cut capital-gains taxes, House Republicans and renegade Democrats jumped at a short-term boost in revenues against a long-term loss. The giveaway fractured the foundation of the landmark 1986 tax-reform law. The drain on the Treasury could be compounded when the measure reaches the Senate, where it is expected to pass, and Democrats try to extend the tax breaks on individual retirement accounts. It seemed like a classic outbreak of "now-nowism," as Budget Director Richard Darman, who helped broker...
SKEPTICS take heart. Remember that last year the council forged a consensus on a broad range of divisive and complex issues for the first time in recent years. It condemned the socially elite, discriminatory final clubs; it organized credible student support for minority and women hiring reform at the University; it defined previously unvoiced anxieties over campus security. The council also came out (belatedly) in opposition to house assignment changes and backed the clerical and technical worker's union. These were not negligible accomplishments...
WHILE the AMA can at least try (and fail) to defend its positions on Medicare reform, its hypocrisy is undeniable on the issue of abortion. Amidst much pomp and circumstance, the AMA filed a pro-choice legal brief with the Supreme Court before the Webster case...
...doctors agree with all of the AMA's actions. Many support Medicare reform, and most are adamantly pro-choice. Physicians across the country devote thousands of hours to free service, and the vast majority do not overcharge Medicare patients...