Word: smalls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Republican leaders say every dollar they leave on the table will just get spent by the "Washington bureaucrats" -? code for either Clinton or some Democratic Congress of the future. Give it all back now, and government will have to stay small. But that disciplined future is a little hard to imagine when right now in the House, Republican super-whip Tom Delay is proudly spending next year?s surplus "and then some" just to make sure there?s no money left for Clinton except for what he promised he wouldn?t touch. "We will negotiate with the President, after...
Houston's Rice University led the pack, boasting small classes and a high graduation rate along with relatively low tuition and generous financial...
...easing up anytime soon. The plan: Keep the public eye on debt-reduction (cue Larry Summers) and off what the White House likes to call "America?s future" or "needed programs." (In other words, new spending.) He has the luxury of pushing delayed gratification (leavened with a small tax cut of his own) at a time when even overtaxed Americans are feeling wealthier than ever before, and the luck to be up against a GOP plan whose sheer size makes his spending programs look like the lesser of two fiscal evils. "The Republican plan assumes that government spending will increase...
LOST & FOUND, PART II Next year, scientists plan an expedition to the Republic of Congo to check reports of a small brontosaurus-like animal. What else is out there...
...Cronin, are located in exactly the wrong part of the river--the broad, shallow heart of the estuary that serves as a nursery for striped bass, bay anchovies and American shad. The plants suck in water with great force; Indian Point alone uses a million gallons a minute. Fish small enough to slip through the meshes are killed at once. Larger fish are impaled on the screens and killed or maimed. Riverkeeper has forced Indian Point to install $25 million worth of fish-saving equipment, and in 1994 the group successfully sued to make the Environmental Protection Agency set official...