Word: taxingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pragmatism is at least partly a response to economic necessity. Mayors are operating in an age of sharply limited resources. Federal aid to cities has fallen sharply in the past 20 years, and urban tax bases have eroded as businesses and affluent residents have fled to the suburbs. Since the mid-1970s, when New York and other big cities teetered on the brink of bankruptcy, mayors have had to work hard just to stay afloat: they literally can no longer afford to preside over bloated bureaucracies or coddle unions at contract time. "There's just a different set of problems...
...What really hurts, of course, is the $40 million in monthly tax revenues withheld by Israel, leaving the better part of the Palestinian Authority working pro bono. A defiant Arafat said exactly that on Thursday in a speech to some Israeli Arabs in Ramallah. "You have 220,000 Palestinians who are not able to bring food to their families...
...NEWS). The Webmasters' private initiative, though, may not cool legislative ardor for rewriting the CDA. Neither filtering software nor self-rating is sufficient to clean up the Net, in the view of Senator Dan Coats of Indiana. Filters are "a good first step," he says, but "it's a tax on the family--the innocent family." Of course, the same could be said for clear-cutting the Web's forests of unfettered speech...
...rusting public-transit system. But as it becomes more obvious that mass transit is the way to relieve pollution and traffic, the Federal and state governments often respond with a collective "Drop dead!" Heminger says the best hope is to raise money through local increases in the gas tax or other levies. Honk if you're on board...
Texas voters over the weekend overwhelmingly added an invaluable $1 billion tax cut to George W. Bush's resume, giving the Lone Star governor a credential that will glisten on a national stage if he chooses to seek the 2000 Republican presidential nomination. The message? When George W. Bush says "No new taxes," he means it. If only his father could have kept such promises...