Word: taxingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...legislative incrementalism. Each year between 1986 and 1990, for example, he quietly passed legislation that extended Medicaid benefits to a larger and larger pool of pregnant women and children, lowering the eligibility requirements a little bit more each year. He used the same strategy to expand the Earned Income Tax Credit, which puts money in the pockets of low-income workers, and he championed such modest but helpful measures as the mandated 48-hr. maternity stay in hospitals. This is a self-effacing leadership style; Bradley calls it being "the leader that people didn't know was a leader...
...comeuppance. While pundits were writing about his presidential ambitions, he was almost beaten by Republican Christine Todd Whitman--then a political novice, now New Jersey's Governor. To many, Bradley seemed out of touch with his state, and he refused to denounce Governor Jim Florio for a series of tax increases that had cost Florio his popularity. "It was a peculiar political price for Bradley to pay," says Torricelli, "because loyalty to local leaders was not his reputation. He didn't understand the sensitivity to these taxes, and it almost ended a brilliant career...
...selected to guide this project, because with such talented stars as Foster and Chow, Anna could be something special and meaningful in examining two contrasting cultures. However, Tennant's visuals are probably the reason he has been brought in on the project; the studio probably doesn't want to tax the viewers' intellects too much or alienate them from the story. After all, if an audience can be placated with pretty cinematography, why bother supplying content...
George W. Bush may not know much about history. He may not know much geography. But he does figure he knows a political loser when he sees one, and he figures the plan by House Republicans to delay those earned income tax credits to pay for their budget definitely qualifies. Time for this conservative to get compassionate. "I don't think they ought to balance their budget on the backs of the poor," said Bush in California on Thursday. Compare to Bill Clinton on the same day - "I will not sign a bill that turns its back on these hard...
...bank in a hundred other ways. These same GOPers, of course, have endorsed Bush in droves, so most of the reaction Thursday was trying not to sound hurt ("It's a free country... he has a right to speak out," sniffed Speaker Dennis Hastert). Bush backed them on the tax cut, and his aides insisted that he would back them in the future. But with Democrats scrambling to tie Bush to a Congress not nearly as charming as he is, the man who would be president is clearly putting his "compassionate" before his "conservative...