Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...carnival of surplus politics, it is harder to argue that Medicare and Social Security require big structural changes, like privatization, means testing or raising the age of eligibility--even though, back in 1935, when it was set at 65, the average life expectancy was 61. Conservatives now see the fruits of restraint bearing the seeds of future deficits, if Congress approves all kinds of new spending this summer that can't be cut back whether the surplus actually materializes...
...make matters worse, Clinton got everywhere first, grabbed all the good seats. He embraced the Republican plan to lock the future Social Security surpluses away to pay down the debt, while also talking tax cuts and the largest expansion ever in Medicare. He has proposed a $156 billion "Children and Education Trust Fund" as well as new retirement-savings accounts. It's almost enough to make the budget hawks wish for recession...
...social engineer," said Ann F. Walsh, president of Boston's Children First, the first plaintiff listed in the lawsuit...
...Smith is absolutely right," says TIME congressional correspondent John Dickerson. "The party establishment has found its candidate, the guy they think can win, and they?d prefer that the issues social conservatives like Smith champion would just go away." The Republicans have been worrying about their right flank since Reagan invited ultra-conservatives into the tent, and running hard to the center since Bob Dole fell flat in 1996. Impeachment, as America shrugged all the way on its descent into Bill Bennett?s cultural hell, may have sealed the deal. Pragmatic governors and tax-cut hawks are the party stars...
...With the two camps squaring off for what may be a decisive parliamentary election next year, hard-liners may be tempted to provoke chaos in order to scare voters away from reform, or to justify a further tightening of authoritarian social control. "Provoking confrontation could cut the ground out from under Khatami," says TIME correspondent William Dowell. "But it?s a risky course, because it could eventually leave the hard-liners facing a unified rebellion from the population." Monday?s protests went ahead despite an order by Tehran?s National Security Council forbidding demonstrations without official permission. And as much...