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...what cut-backs? Three trillion 1990 dollars have been spent on social programs since 1960. Even during the Republican years, real social welfare spending rose 44 percent. Despite all this largesse, we still had the L.A. riots...
...would like to see one. But the panel members stressed that any relief to working Americans should be financed by politically difficult cuts in entitlement programs like Medicare. Sinai estimated that the tax break itself might amount to $25 billion. While that would have little impact on the $5 trillion U.S. economy, it could give Bill Clinton a political lift from the group of Americans whom he championed as a candidate...
...other costs when they trade overseas or build plants abroad. Like all derivatives, they function, essentially, as bets on the direction of particular markets. So coveted is such insurance that the total face amount -- or "notional value" -- of swaps and similar contracts has soared to an astronomical $11 trillion, up from $5.1 trillion since...
...uber-Jaycee -- is focusing his efforts mostly on such large emerging markets as Indonesia, South Korea and Latin America. China is the biggest prize: during the next five years, as it struggles to industrialize as rapidly as possible, the People's Republic is expected to go on a $1 trillion shopping spree for foreign technology. Leading a group of 24 U.S. business executives on a whirlwind trip to China two weeks ago, Brown helped net deals worth nearly $6 billion. The agreements included a commitment by Shanghai Airlines to purchase 11 Boeing 757 passenger jets ($1 billion), a telecommunications contract...
...force from the explosions produced when the many fragments of Shoemaker-Levy 9 hit the solar system's largest planet was the equivalent of several trillion nuclear bombs...