Word: roofed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Alice Rivlin, the Clinton Administration's budget director, said today that incoming House SpeakerNewt Gingrich's avowed tax-cutting planwould send the federal deficit through the roof and shove the economy into a recession. "If we had a big tax cut right now and people were spending more, the inflation danger would be much more real than it is now," Rivlin told reporters. "You'd have rapid increases in interest rates, and probably throw the economy into a recession." Republicans fired back: Rep. John Kasich (R-Ohio) said any GOP tax cut would be offset by spending cuts, and tweaked...
...anger came ugliness. There were those like Richardson who advocated "stringing her up right in the middle of the courthouse." Worried about Smith's safety, SWAT team members staked out the courthouse roof, scanning the crowd below as helicopters circled overhead...
...American Legion hall in Tullahoma, Tennessee, there are 200 people waiting to hear Newt Gingrich tell them that the sky is falling and to raise the roof as he does it. Officially, it's a fund-raising rally for Van Hilleary, a Republican House candidate. The real draw is Gingrich, House minority whip, Republican carnivore, the man who would be king -- and who will be something close to it in the next Congress. That Gingrich has already spent 15 years there is no obstacle to the message he will offer tonight, the same one he will have delivered...
...where was the Secret Service? Sharpshooters and lookouts are supposedly posted on the roof of the White House when the President and family are in residence...
...slipped into 12 ft. of water in Chambers County in the midst of a torrential downpour. As the vehicle came to a stop, the father grabbed his two-year-old son and his baby, who was born only two months ago. Attempting to scramble to safety on the roof of the car, he lost his grip on the infant, who immediately disappeared in the swirling water; the child's body was found Wednesday...