Word: taxingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Governor doesn't have much power, he had no choice but to build a big coalition, work with the Democrats and generally conduct himself in a way that offered a perfect contrast to the eye gouging going on in Washington. Together Bush and his coalition would pass the biggest tax cut in the state's history, reform its tort-liability system and boost reading scores enough to give him bragging rights on a national scale...
...these early, intimate meetings, people wanted to see if he was one of them. Was he truly a conservative or a moderate, a Christian, a tax cutter, a libertarian? What breed of Republican was this guy? Bush seemed to have found a universal language. Warren Tompkins, a veteran G.O.P. operative in South Carolina, watched Bush come into the Palmetto State last year to raise money for Governor David Beasley. Tompkins recalled how people from both left and right remarked afterward, "This guy is talking to me." "Shoot," said Tompkins later, "that's when I thought this thing is gonna...
...April, always a strong month because of tax refunds and IRA contributions, a net $25 billion flowed into mutual funds, according to the Investment Company Institute. But that's down slightly from last April, and this year income tax refunds were at record levels. And thanks to a 2% across-the-board drop on Wall Street during the month, May is looking like a loser, with just $10 billion flowing in, according to market tracker Trim Tabs...
...accused Graham of intellectualism, profound spirituality or social compassion, but he is free of any association with the Christian right of Pat Robertson, Ralph Reed and all the other advocates of a God whose prime concerns are abolishing the graduated income tax and a woman's right to choose abortion (which Graham also opposes). And there have been no scandals, financial or sexual, to darken Graham's mission. His sincerity, transparent and convincing, cannot be denied. He is an icon essential to a country in which, for two centuries now, religion has been not the opiate but the poetry...
...economic work has inspired somewhat liberal political views. Freeman is a believer in the earned income tax credit, a negative income tax for working parents and "shared capitalism," which he says gives workers shared decision-making stakes in the companies that employ them...