Word: revolts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Only an ailing economy, dismal polls and a G.O.P. revolt...
Western analysts are worried that Saddam Hussein, recently reported to have put down a revolt of his own senior officers, is itching to pick a fight with the outside world to prove he's in control despite the debilitating international embargo and the presence of the U.N. arms inspectors. He has defied demands for information on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, refused to renew an agreement allowing relief workers to operate in Iraq, spurned a U.N. deal that would allow him to sell $1.6 billion in oil to finance food and humanitarian aid, and rejected a new U.N.-demarcated...
...greatest changes in our country were not originated by Presidents; they came about as a result of popular drives that Presidents joined, more or less, to lead. That was true of the antitrust and pure-food revolutions, of the union movement, environmental protection, auto safety, the tax revolt, civil rights, women's rights, gay rights (whatever you may think of them...
...largely because of Avery Brundage, president of the International Olympic Committee from 1952 to '72. An American self-made millionaire and Olympian -- he had placed sixth in the 1912 pentathlon behind Thorpe -- Brundage had convictions that were nothing short of religious. "The Olympic movement today," he thundered, "is a revolt against 20th century materialism -- a devotion to the cause and not the reward...
...This, of course, is the most controversial area of all. The taxpayer revolt is still very much alive, and many economists believe that raising taxes in a recession would slow the recovery and thus cause a net reduction in federal revenue. Still, higher taxation, along with reductions in entitlements, is where the most significant progress on reducing the deficit can be made. The Joint Committee on Taxation estimates that changing the marginal income tax rates from 15%, 28% and 31% to 16%, 30% and 33% would increase revenue by $18.3 billion in 1993 and by more than $169 billion over...