Word: zeroed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...confusion, though, delivery of the draft bill marked what Budget Director Leon Panetta, borrowing a line from Winston Churchill, called "the end of the beginning" in the great national-health- care debate. For months that debate has focused on ideas, generalities, trial balloons, leaked outlines. Now it can zero in on the specifications of an actual draft bill. Not necessarily one bearing much resemblance to what Congress may eventually pass, however. Said Senate Republican leader Robert Dole: "I'm willing to wager that the final product will be considerably different from any bill that has been proposed to date" -- including...
...Congress approved the Clinton proposal to tax higher-income retirees on 85% of their Social Security benefits. Tsongas claims to have given his deficit-slashing speech 70 times this year to diverse audiences without resistance. "There is no doubt in my mind that the country would rally to a zero-deficit banner," he says...
After that, the Crimson had no chance, down two games to zero...
Tsongas presented "The Zero-Deficit Plan" designed by The Concord Coalition, which he and former Sen. Warren B. Rudman (R-N.H.) co- founded in 1992 to promote reduction of thefederal deficit. The plan calls for a"comprehensive entitlement means test" to makesure government funds are only going to people whoneed them...
Olde Discount Stockbrokers (800-USA-OLDE) offers free trading of any listed common stock. You have to have an account worth at least $500,000 to qualify; but if you do, there's no commission to pay. Zero! (How does Olde do it? By charging commissions on all the other trades you do -- such as bonds, options and over-the-counter trades. And by lending money to you on margin, loaning your securities out to short sellers, and perhaps even selling you an annuity or life-insurance policy...