Word: tanked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Everyone concerned is trying to do the math. Some G.O.P. advisers say the party is well positioned to gain strength in the next election so long as it doesn't get blamed for toppling a popular President and sending all those 401(k) balances into the tank. But others see a risk in doing too little. "You could have a significant slice of our grass-roots activist base go nuts if there's a lot of evidence [against Clinton] and we don't do anything about it," says a G.O.P. aide. "These people are not going to vote Democrat...
Stephen Moore, director of fiscal-policy studies for the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank, is more exuberant. Government projections, he notes, are based on a 4% yearly increase in tax revenues--but, in fact, revenues have risen an average of 7% for the past five or six years. If that continues, he says, "you start getting very enormous budget surpluses very quickly": $40 billion to $50 billion this year, "well over $150 billion by the year...
...think of him as a potential candidate for President," says Larry Mone, a Rudyologist at the Manhattan Institute, a neoconservative think tank. "He has a pragmatic approach to problems that once seemed so intractable." Precisely, chimes Giuliani, who takes credit for dramatic reductions in crime and the welfare rolls and resents criticism that his second-term initiatives aren't as grand as those of his first. "The press likes to trivialize what I do," says the mayor, who invokes Plato and the concept of an ideal society. One in which strippers wear bloomers...
...grid of flourescent lights dangling at varying angles just inches above the dancers' heads adds to the surreal, Blade Runner-esque mood onstage. No-sweat-showing spandex and stretch velvet seem to be costume designer Santo Loquasto's fabrics of choice for this production--the men don shimmery silver tank tops and billowy white pants, while the women wear either two-color fluttery gowns resembling beach cover-ups, or bathing beauty-style suits and hair kercheifs. All this, added to robotical pattering about and (mostly womens' and a few mens') writhing on the floor due to various mens' pelvic gyrations...
...didn't blacken, nor the moon turn red, but the world did come to an end, just as their prophet had promised. The End drove up in a tank, spitting gas, fulfilling prophecies. And if anyone wants to harm them, says the Book of Revelation, fire pours from their mouth and consumes their foes...