Word: tab
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Angeles congressional district, U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters says students use federal loans to matriculate at fly-by-night trade schools and cannot find jobs after they graduate. They default on the loans, can't get credit, and are unable to escape poverty. Taxpayers pick up the tab...
...lock-'em-up fever have made America the world's No. 1 jailer, there still aren't nearly enough cells to go around. The '80s zeal for harsh drug penalties has pushed the U.S. incarceration rate to 455 per 100,000 citizens and has run up an unprecedented annual tab of $21 billion for the construction of prisons and maintenance of inmates. As the nation's inmate population swells toward 1.4 million, prison officials must release career criminals to make room for first-time drug offenders. The growing public outcry against violent crime is prompting politicians to call for even...
...city's homeowners did not carry any. California Governor Pete Wilson has sent Clinton his estimated bill: between $15 billion and $30 billion. The latter amount would tie the quake with Hurricane Andrew as the most expensive disaster in American history. Wilson asked Clinton to pick up the entire tab, waiving laws requiring that state and local governments chip in as well...
...swapped 20 Whitewater building lots, almost half the project's total, for little more than a twin- engine Piper Seminole airplane that was later sold for a loss of $13,000. That loss was absorbed by Madison Guaranty's depositors, but federal taxpayers eventually had to pick up the tab through the RTC. Another intriguing factor is that the plane was at one point owned by Seth Ward, the father-in-law of Webster Hubbell, then a law partner of Hillary's and now Reno's top deputy at the Justice Department. McDougal sold Ward the plane...
...Arkansas state troopers who now accuse Clinton of womanizing on the taxpayers' tab are far from credible. David Brock, the reporter who broke the story in the conservative magazine The American Spectator, is about as unbiased as Harvey Mansfield is liberal. And the women who were purportedly Clinton's mistresses at the Arkansas governor's mansion before he left for Washington are themselves denying the allegations. The media establishment went ahead and printed the troopers' stories even though they are even flimsier than the charges Clinton faced from the likes of Gennifer Flowers during the '92 campaign...