Word: rising
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Soft on crime? Next to being called a politician, that was every candidate's worst fear this season. The desperate need to talk tough gave rise to a clamor for three-strikes-you're-out laws and other stringent penalties. But do those measures have anything to do with what works in the real world? A street-level look suggests that the popular wisdom has it backward...
...government officials are studying the consequences of the newly pervasive greenback and the concomitant rise in counterfeiting. The currency outflow produces one sweet side effect: the Treasury saves an estimated $15 billion a year since it pays nothing on the dollars held overseas that don't make their way into American interest-bearing accounts. At the same time, since the flow of funds abroad cannot be precisely quantified, it makes it almost impossible for the Fed to gauge the domestic money supply and thus know with certainty how to manipulate it. "Estimates of currency held abroad are subject to considerable...
Despite the mid-term election results, Clinton still has a chance to win in 1996. If he emerges from the election as an energized consensus-builder, he may be able to rise above the partisan fray. And the burden is now on the Republicans--with a majority in both houses--to legislate the change that the public demands. "There's a lot of time to rewrite history," King says...
...week was ranked in the NCAA Division I-AA Top 25, has seen the bottom fall out of its rise to fame...
Some of the changes in deductions and exemptions also strike us as very reasonable. The deductions for single parents and child care would be increased, and the income ceiling for tax exemption would rise; all of these changes help low-to middle-income families most...