Word: shrinkly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...levels are fixed, there is little point in inflating revenue estimates through rosy economic assumptions. Moreover, the caps will force both parties to make spending decisions carefully. Democrats who want to spend more on, say, housing must carve the money from another program. This programmatic triage alone should help shrink the deficit. As Bush said in his State of the Union speech, "Future spending debates will mean a battle of ideas, not a bidding...
While depositors kept their money, Bank of New England Corp. creditors and share-owners took a drubbing. Bondholders with a $706 million stake in the company saw their portfolios shrink to about $35 million, since the government now owned the firm's loans and most other assets. Owners of Bank of New England stock, which fell from $9 a share a year ago to about 50 cents a share just before the bankruptcy, saw their investments vanish. The losers included CBS president Laurence Tisch and his brother Preston, who held some 500,000 shares they acquired last year as part...
...gross national product will shrink at an annual rate of 2.5%, after adjusting for inflation, in the fourth quarter, and show smaller declines in the first half of next year, according to TIME's panel. (The economy grew at an anemic 1.4% rate in the July-September quarter.) The downturn would meet the official definition of a recession, which is at least two straight quarters of falling GNP. The panel said the U.S. appeared likely to resume slow growth by mid-1991 as the Federal Reserve Board lowers interest rates to stimulate business activity. That scenario would amount...
...YORK was so flush in 1987 that it decided to cut state income taxes over four years. But when the economy began to shrink, Democratic Governor Mario Cuomo did not react fast enough. Facing a $1 billion deficit, the state legislature met in special session two weeks ago to adopt a package of cuts that nibbled at school spending and hospitals. When Cuomo took off for ^ Washington three days later to deliver a speech that warned about federal budget deficits, he may have hoped his troubles were over for a while. No such luck. On the same day Republican state...
...country change after liberation? Is it worth dying for? -- The allies seem to shrink from paying their share of gulf costs. -- Democracy knocks in Eastern Europe, but is anyone home...