Word: surplus
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...argument: One: never mind about the surplus - the tax cut was the surplus, and the people deserve it returned to them. Two: never mind about the tax cut - not only did the people deserve it, they needed it, thanks to the stumbling economy that he inherited from Bill Clinton. And three: never mind about what Democrats say we could have spent the money on instead - economic growth comes first, and that was what...
...Back to Wednesday for a moment: The White House?s private accounting firm, otherwise known as the Office of Management and Budget, releases its budget numbers, which are expected to confirm the hair?s-breadth $1 billion non-Social-Security surplus that the OMB?s number-crunchers salvaged with some fancy accounting tricks last week. (Bush gives a working-vacation preview from Missouri on Tuesday, which will be a garbled salvo to the Democrats trying to sacrifice his tax cut on the surplus altar...
...outcome that pro-lifers feared most--the compromise developed last month by Republican Senator Bill Frist of Tennessee, the only physician in the Senate, who has been an important Bush adviser on medical and health-care issues. Frist's plan would allow stem cells to be extracted from surplus embryos currently in stock and due for destruction in clinics and labs around the country, a supply that numbers between 100,000 and 1 million. Senate majority leader Tom Daschle, who was mildly critical of Bush's compromise, says he will introduce a broad stem-cell funding bill that could embrace...
Besides, there are some good reasons why long rates haven't budged. They fell sharply last year in anticipation of a weaker economy. The President's tax cut had a price too: it leaves less surplus to pay down the nation's debt, a condition that puts upward pressure on yields. Inflation--the scourge of fixed incomes--has doubled from its low 1.6% annual rate 18 months ago, lending heft to bond-pit suspicions that a recovery has taken root...
...November 1998, when he was just nudging 40, he not only succeeded in culling stem cells from "surplus" embryos created at fertility clinics but also kept them alive and reproducing indefinitely. In effect, he stopped their biological clocks by preventing the cells from morphing into different tissues, as they would in undisturbed embryos. In the jargon of cell research, they were immortal. Only a few days later, fellow stem-cell researcher John Gearhart of Johns Hopkins University published word that he had succeeding in cultivating a line of stem cells from the germ cells of aborted fetuses--though he graciously...