Word: yielding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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CLINTON'S AIDES ALSO TRIED DISPUTING THE PROposal's claim that unspecified "administrative savings" can yield $22 billion over four years. They were cut short. Clinton is unimpressed by his predecessors' failed attempts to swipe at waste, fraud and abuse. "I told my people I'd force those savings simply by cutting agency budgets by 3% a year," Clinton says. "I did the same kind of thing in Arkansas. There's a lot of flab, believe...
...will be more than $100 billion higher than they -- and Bush -- had estimated. Clinton's aides blame the Republican incumbent for underplaying future costs for defense and the thrift bailout, but they also admit cooking their own numbers. New taxes on foreign firms, for example, are now expected to yield only one-fifth of the $15 billion a year that Clinton promised...
Some change is coming nevertheless, although the dream of public financing appears dead. Congress's incumbents don't want it because they won't yield the financial advantage they currently enjoy. But the voluntary caps on campaign spending that Clinton favors are likely, a reform that seems lame but could be meaningful if voters retaliate against those candidates who won't play along. Clinton's $1,000 PAC-contribution ceiling may fail -- another casualty of Congress's power -- "but we'll get it down somewhat, and maybe to the $1,000 level if the boss wants to spend some political...
...effort to break the stalemate, Yeltsin last week tried to strike a deal with critics that was aimed at easing economic hardship over the next six months while retaining the main elements of reform. But the deal fell through. Gaidar refused to yield to conservative demands for wage and price freezes or restoration of state control over distribution of resources...
Green said he expects the retreat to yield "a reasonably solid agreement" on the central fund...