Word: tagging
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...theory is to cosmologists: the secret to everything. Tax cuts create jobs, they boost spending, they lift the markets--they'll even paint your house for you. But Bush is having a hard time convincing others of that. The Senate has already cleaved in two the $726 billion price tag for Bush's plan. Even the normally lockstep House has voted to cap the cut at $550 billion. The public isn't enthusiastic either--only 42% think tax cuts are a good idea--but Bush continues to push headlong into the battle...
...White House aides dismiss the criticism as the usual whining of a messy and undisciplined Congress. Senate Finance Chairman Chuck Grassley, who insisted on the smaller $350 billion price tag for any tax package that comes out of his tax-writing committee, is dismissed as a headline hound. Majority Leader Frist, who allowed the budget to pass that limits the size of the cut, is portrayed as a newbie rolled by his more experienced colleagues. " (Budget Chairman Don) Nickles wanted a budget before recess" says a White House official involved in selling the tax plan, "and Frist gave...
...Upset at the Senate's inability to find a way to scrap the smaller figure or accommodate the president's wishes within the smaller price tag, the House went off on its own way creating its own plan that shaves down the size of the Bush dividend cut and adds a reduction in capital gains taxes, something the president did not propose. "The Senate is stuck in the mud at $350 billion," said Ohio Congresswoman Deborah Price, who chairs the House Republican Conference. Though the chief tax writer in the House, Ways and Means Chairman Bill Thomas, embraced much...
Further ahead in the line is a guy with a name tag. “Imram,” I say smoothly, “how have you been since I saw you last?” Imram takes this in stride, considering he’s never seen me in his life. Pretty soon, we’re catching up like…people who have actually met before. Imram regales us with his astute observations and up-to-the-minute Harvard knowledge. “That guy Dean Kirby, I heard he got kicked out. The new dean...
...club’s performances usually begin with members briefly juggling individually to introduce themselves and show off their specialties. Then they take a tag-team approach, with members joining in intricate patterns with many jugglers tossing balls at once...