Word: surplus
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Nevertheless, more than 150 students spent their first month bivouacked in the Indoor Athletic Center (now the Malkin Athletic Center), sleeping on surplus Navy cots and making do with what the college provided: one cot, one chair and one ashtray...
...Nevertheless, more than 150 students spent their first month bivouacked in the Indoor Athletic Center (now the Malkin Athletic Center), sleeping on surplus Navy cots and making do with what the college provided: one cot, one chair and one ashtray...
...plan isn't ready for prime time and neither is Bush. Gore may need to emerge from the shadow of Bill Clinton (who offered Monday that neither plan was as good as his from a few years ago: setting up the individual accounts with money from the current surplus instead of payroll taxes), but he's still running as an incumbent. The status quo, and the current demographics of the voting public, will be Gore's best asset...
...Expecting that kind of fiscal discipline from future presidents and Congresses is not a great bet. The budget surplus the government supposedly has now is basically a fantasy based on a three-year-old budget and optimistic economic projections. There's little good reason to believe that Gore's successors would be able to keep up such a schedule, or even that Gore himself would be able to get such a program out of the hangar in the first place...
...same token, people who were impressed that McCain considered shoring up Social Security and Medicare to be an important conservative priority will find little to love in Bush's domestic agenda. Instead of protecting these essential obligations, Bush threatens to use a huge chunk of the projected surplus...