Word: surplus
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George W. Bush may want to tie Al Gore to Bill Clinton on everything from morality to oil prices, but when it comes to the politics of the surplus he's taking a new tack: Al Gore's not an incumbent after...
Given our nation's expected multi-trillion dollar surplus over the next 10 years, improving the poor's access to health care is no longer a luxury, but what should be regarded as obligation. Although we have reservations about the dangers of centralization in both schemes, both Bush and Gore have presented laudable plans to boost Americans' health care coverage. In the end, it is a strong commitment to children's health care that ultimately makes Gore's plan the more attractive...
...billion market. This summer in London, De Beers all but acknowledged the end of its dominance; the company told its select group of 125 clients that it would no longer be the diamond producers' "buyer of last resort" and would begin to unload its $4 billion stockpile of surplus gems...
...success of two of the more established on-line travel sites, travelocity.com and expedia.com, has further paved the way for myriad other websites that allow users to search for low plane fares in any number of ways. Sites such as priceline.com even allow consumers to bid for surplus seats, while most of the major airlines sell bargain basement "e-saver" fares through their websites and e-mail databases...
Unfortunately, this is the case. About half of the $1.6 trillion tax cut--that's more than half of the projected budget surplus, which is itself a wobbly estimate and is already being spent by Congress--will go to families with an income over $250,000. Princeton economist Paul Krugman estimates that even a family making $80,000 a year would get less than $20 per week off its taxes once the plan was fully phased in; a family making $1 million would get $1,000 per week. Giving surplus money back to the people is the backbone of self...