Word: taxingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ministers deemed "responsible" for Russia's woes. Chubais himself took the blame in an early round. It remains to be seen whether Yeltsin's new government will prove any more adept at tackling the country's pressing problems: growing mafia influence, widespread government corruption, unpaid salaries and pensions, spotty tax collection, a crumbling infrastructure, a demoralized and ill-trained army, and a lackluster economy...
...using racist language or appeals, but Clinton looks askance at Lott's voting record: against extension of the 1965 Voting Rights Act; against the federal holiday in honor of Martin Luther King Jr.; against a memorial for civil rights workers murdered in Philadelphia, Mississippi; in favor of extending tax breaks to segregated schools. Political consultant Dick Morris, who has worked with both Lott and Clinton, writes in his memoir that during the welfare debate last summer, Clinton privately shouted that Lott "loved cutting off children! You should have seen his face! He was delighted that he could savage them, delighted...
...attract and retain industry, politicians gave away valuable land, tax abatements, municipal water, road improvements and exemptions from environmental protections. The paper mill smelled like rotten eggs, and the menhaden plant reeked of rotten fish, but the men who worked there would shrug and say, "All I smell...
...Lott vowed to "fight against the ever increasing efforts of the so-called liberals to concentrate more power in the government in Washington." But he voted for more federal spending on the military, farm subsidies, rural public works projects and entitlement programs. The main federal activities he opposed were taxes and programs for the poor. When supply-side economics came along, it was a special godsend to Lott: a theology that encouraged tax cuts without spending cuts, a new way to avoid hard choices...
...instance, he opposed a Reagan-sponsored tax-reform bill that would have closed certain special-interest loopholes. That same year, Lott and Congressman Jack Kemp persuaded Reagan not to support the Republican Senate's efforts to reduce the cost of living allowances for Social Security, and the measure failed in the House. Two years later, Lott joined with Democrats to override Reagan's veto of a pork-larded highway bill, explaining that he wanted some of that spending for his district. And in 1990 he opposed President Bush over a deficit-reduction package that included both spending cuts...