Word: importance
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...deployment of SDI. CENTRAL AMERICA: Favors military and economic aid to the contras, and opposes the Arias peace plan. DEFICIT: Favors a balanced budget amendment. Will consider cutting some domestic programs while freezing spending on all programs, except low-income programs. TAXES: Will not raise taxes. Favors an oil import tax, with cost reductions for home heating oil. TRADE: Is against Gephardt amendment, but agrees that some action must be taken against nations that practice unfair trade...
Campaigns, according to the civics texts and good-government groups, are supposed to be about issues and ideas, ideology and vision. Focusing on personality and manner is trivial. Yet this year, the fight for the Republican nomination involves something far more important than artificial differences on oil-import fees or taxes. It is a struggle between styles and temperaments that go to the heart of the kind of President each would...
Increase the gasoline tax. Boosting the levy by 20 cents, to 29 cents per | gal., would encourage energy conservation. It would raise $18 billion, of which $2 billion could be rebated to low-income households in income-tax credits. One alternative, imposing an oil-import fee, would be less preferable because it would fall disproportionately on those who rely on oil heat. $16 billion...
...South, lying in wait for Super Tuesday; and Mario Cuomo still hovers mysteriously in the wings. But for the moment, the two contenders who ran first and third in Iowa will define the Democratic debate. Dukakis' opposition to Gephardt's agenda of get-tough trade policies and an oil-import fee is only part of the equation. More telling are their differences in orientation and outlook. For all his new populist pretensions, Gephardt remains a man of the House, a legislative tactician whose vision is shaped by years of trying to assemble 218-vote majorities. Dukakis, in contrast, offers...
...people are not getting ahead economically; they can't buy the house; they can't afford the education. It's more jobs, more work, less income, more debt." In any case, Gephardt does not have the luxury of tailoring his appeal to New England voters. Even though an oil-import fee is wildly unpopular in these frigid climes, Gephardt must hold his ground in a belated effort to demonstrate ideological consistency...