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While these wrangles were going on, Taylor and his fellow economists were working to insulate Dole from charges that he was making pie-in-the-sky promises. Many economists believe that the government would eventually get back 50% to 60% of the revenues initially lost through tax cuts, because faster economic growth would boost incomes subject to tax. To be conservative, though, Taylor reduced the figure presented to Dole...
Known for its striking natural beauty, the Big Sky Country has more than 50 state parks and still considers agriculture, especially wheat and cattle, its economic mainstay. Despite this year's highly publicized Freeman standoff in Jordan and the arrest of the Unabomber suspect near Helena, Montana remains one of the most moderate of the conservative Rocky Mountain states. Clinton won here by 2% in 1992, but a Republican Governor was elected the same year. And both the contested congressional seats this year are considered close...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "Unless we reverse course, America is going to slide inevitably into second-class economic status. Without change, a child born today will have to pay sky-high taxes while facing a deteriorating standard of living...
...today's Harvard-Dartmouth football game, the union has hired a sky-writing plane to write above the stadium, "Harvard is unfair to working mothers...
...from delivering its point too aggressively. The show is constantly contrasting the bleak offices and dark labs in which Black works to hunt the deranged cult leaders and sexual serial killers who are his prey, with the image of his blindingly yellow Seattle home, framed always by a blue sky that is eerie in its brilliance. Says Carter: "For me the whole reason to do the show was that yellow house--a bright center in a dark universe." Meet Frank Black, Everypatriarch, on a mission to keep ugliness from tainting his family...