Word: counterpuncher
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...will try to get some traction by talking more about reform and stop trying to match Gore promise for promise, on prescription drugs and military pay and education spending. But with his enormous tax cut at the center of his budget, he doesn't have as much room to counterpunch. Reforming anything as vast as Social Security or Medicare or the Pentagon takes money too, as Americans learned from welfare reform. Gore puts $775 billion into Medicare, Bush $198 billion. Gore allots $115 billion for education, Bush $48 billion. For the environment, Gore offers up $120 billion, Bush just...
NAME: Shubert Organization OCCUPATION: Producer, theater owner and Broadway powerhouse COUNTERPUNCH: Files complaint with Actors Equity citing Stewart's unprofessional conduct; asks union to oust...
NAME: Danny Glover OCCUPATION: Tolerating Mel Gibson COUNTERPUNCH: The Lethal Weapon star and onetime cabdriver filed a formal complaint with the city's taxi and limousine commission, charging discrimination, and proposed all taxi drivers take a course in diversity training...
...earnings and beat the printed estimates by 6%. The stock fell because the whisper number was higher. Stinks, doesn't it? And don't expect the SEC to help with Wall Street's little games. It's watching; so far that's all. But patience can be an effective counterpunch. In the long run, stocks track earnings growth, no matter who's breathing what in whose...
...proposals. (The latest Republican commercial predicts disastrous tax increases for several average Americans, dubious calculations that senior adviser Charles Black lamely defends as legitimate because the spot claims "only" that such horrors "could" occur, not that they necessarily will.) Bush's team professes delight with Clinton's reflexive counterpunch -- a series of ads that slam the President's fiscal record. "We're already dead meat on the economy," says a Republican operative. "He can't put us in the hole any deeper. He hasn't closed his sale. He's still new in the public's mind. He should...