Word: rues
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Some killjoys think the states will rue the day that they got carried away by tax-cut fever. The rise in state revenues is not sustainable, says Hal Hovey, editor and publisher of State Budget & Tax News, a bimonthly publication. He believes spending will again be pushed up by "two elephants": Medicaid spending, which will rise once the economy slows, and the severe pressure of rising prison populations. So states, he thinks, will have to either cut other services or raise taxes again, or both. Vermont Governor Howard Dean, chairman of the National Governors Association, thinks momentarily flush states should...
...called ahead and turned up at 3 in the afternoon, you could see a free show with live models and maybe get a glimpse of the couturier. Perhaps I got hooked when I saw Chanel herself surveying the defile, crouched at the top of that mirrored staircase on the rue Cambon, watching her models descend...
...Cabinet departments, shrinking some 300 programs and eliminating more than 100 others. Everyone from poor families who receive home-heating assistance to communities hard hit by layoffs would feel the pinch. Indeed, as Clinton declared in a statement that contained both a boast and more than a touch of rue, the document represents "the toughest budget in spending cuts that Congress has yet seen...
These are all wonderful performances, in which rue and survivors' courage are gently voiced, with nobody trying to steal a scene or, heaven forfend, the picture. Moreau is particularly fine, since her role is one that could so easily be domineering...
...that this is already translating into lower prices, particularly for top-level champagnes. "I haven't seen much of a drop in sales because the best brands have been continuously on sale, with prices permanently lowered by 10%," says Roland Vella, who manages a Nicolas liquor store on the Rue Rambuteau in Paris. Instead of paying the usual $26.50 for a bottle of Mumm's top-of-the-line Cordon Rouge, Vella's customers can buy one for $23.70. Anticipating this year's 250th company anniversary, Moet & Chandon last year even offered two free champagne glasses to anyone who bought...