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...tried to square his support for the 2001 tax cuts with his current dire warnings about the budget deficits and unsustainable entitlement programs. "If confronted with the same evidence we had back then, I would recommend exactly what I recommended then," he said, referring to the rosy budget-surplus projections at the time. "It turns out we were all wrong...
...this is the movies). On a flight from Los Angeles to New York, Oliver (Ashton Kutcher), a jobless college graduate with an unflattering bowl haircut, meets Emily (Amanda Peet) who is wearing combat boots. It seems to be a match made in heaven. Or at least an army surplus store. And, lo and behold, they end up having sex in the airport bathroom...
While Republican National Committee Chairman Frank Fahrenkopf boasted that Kean's victory "destroys the old Democratic coalition," others argued that it was simply a vote of confidence for an amiable Governor who had turned New Jersey's $500 million deficit into a $600 million surplus and reduced the state unemployment rate from 9% to 5%. " Kean, who has approved the withdrawal of New Jersey investments from companies doing business in South Africa, won more than 60% of the black vote and was endorsed by the state's AFL-CIO. In what may become a model for moderate Republicans, the Governor...
JAPAN. The focus of the American protectionist furor is Japan, which racked up a $37 billion trade surplus with the U.S. last year. Trying to curb that imbalance, Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone has moved in 1985 to modify regulations that block imports and has gone on national television to urge the Japanese people to buy foreign goods. Nakasone also hopes to spur imports by stimulating the Japanese economy. Last month the government unveiled a program to boost real estate development and ease restrictions on consumer loans...
...price swings, tin prices have been controlled by the London-based I.T.C. The cartel attempted to fix both the world supply and the price of tin, measures once considered beneficial to consumers of the metal as well as producers. It assigned production quotas to members and then bought up surplus tin whenever international prices fell below a certain level. The surplus metal was then gradually sold off during times of greater demand, when prices were higher. The cartel does not include all nations that mine or import tin. The U.S., the world's largest tin importer, has not been...