Word: secret
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...July 9 Armey, DeLay, Boehner and Paxon gathered for the first of several secret meetings to discuss the brewing rebellion. The next night, DeLay met with 20 rebels in the offices of Oklahoma's Steve Largent. At first, DeLay was coy. Then he warned that if the rebels were going to act, they had better do so quickly, because their plot was about to leak. "Is everybody prepared to go ahead with this?" he asked. At that point, Indiana's Mark Souder turned the question around. "Are you with us?" According to several participants, DeLay was clearly speaking...
ECONOMIC BACKDROP Even veteran economists are rubbing their eyes in disbelief at how well the U.S. economy has behaved this decade. For years policymakers couldn't figure out how to reduce joblessness without flaring inflation. The 1990s finally revealed the secret: end the cold war; slash military spending. Pare annual federal budget deficits. Have a central-bank chairman who can deftly apply the monetary brakes to hold inflation down without killing the expansion. Voila! The healthiest economy in recent memory...
...those stars who like the thought of being a published author but don't want to go to the trouble of hiring a ghostwriter, there is an alternative: children's books. This fall the two biggest pens are wielded by MICHAEL BOLTON and JOHN TRAVOLTA. Bolton's The Secret of the Lost Kingdom, the story of a prince who leaves his father's castle and lives as a peasant, will give readers heartache or heartburn, depending on how they feel about Bolton, particularly since Kingdom's long-tressed hero bears an uncanny physical resemblance to his creator. The singer wrote...
...early 1960s, a period much like today: low inflation, low interest rates, strong profits. Coca-Cola, to name one, trades at 36 times the earnings Wall Street expects it to enjoy in 1998. Coke is a great company. But for that kind of price its secret formula should cure a lot more than a thirst. Such lofty PEs are more troubling than other market flashpoints because they are based on earnings, which are the market's lifeblood...
...Clintons deserve a lot of credit for how normally daughter CHELSEA has turned out despite her fishbowl upbringing, but her Secret Service detail also deserves a nod. CHELSEA is very sensible in cooperating with her agents, and in turn they cut her enough slack so she can manage a normal teenage life, like strolling with a date out of their earshot. The agents have been specially trained to work with her age group, and "It works really well," says a White House insider. So after Mom and Dad finish moving her in, maybe Stanford will turn...