Word: boardings
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Another reason the Bush tax cut may not have much impact is that its biggest parts, like across-the-board rate reductions, are the ones least likely to sail through a sharply divided Congress. And the pieces that are easiest to pass, like an end to the marriage penalty for joint filers, are too small to do much to stimulate consumer spending. Democrats have accepted the inevitability of some kind of tax reduction?s passing Congress this year. House minority leader Dick Gephardt has already said so. But none of them is prepared to support cuts of the size that...
...Kenneth Blackwell, the Republican Ohio secretary of state who co-chaired the Census Monitoring Board, put it: "Is the juice worth the squeeze? No." After all, the whole thing - which is handled with much wrangling by state legislatures - is likely to be even more bitter in 2000 than it was in 1990, what with the national scales so easily tipped. It's one more partisan fight that a "uniter, not a divider" would want to stay as far away from as possible...
...part of his morning routine, he ate an English muffin with grape jelly and drank coffee from a Styrofoam cup, then sat down to his drawing table and the long, white Strathmore board with the five-inch-by-five-inch panels in which he drew the daily strip. "He attempted to be ordinary," recalls Clark Gesner, author of the musical "You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown." He wanted to be what he thought he had always been - a regular person...
...surplus that seemed to go as far as the eye could see suddenly made tax cuts a stump speech staple again. "It's your money," Bush used to say - and soon the targeted vs. across-the-board debate reared its head as a partisan issue. But in the fight for the swing voters who had slowly learned to love fiscal discipline, tax cuts were not high on their presidential to-do list. Perhaps the best that could be said of Bush's $1.3-trillion-dollar baby is that it didn't cost him the election...
...These are the post-Clinton political seas into which George W. Bush will launch the $1.3 trillion across-the-board tax cut that was first conceived by the Bushites to sink Steve Forbes in New Hampshire. It's a tough sell. Voters would take a tax cut - who doesn't want more money? - but the size scares them. Republicans have always depended on tax cuts, but know that the size makes them vulnerable to getting out-empathized by Democrats. And Democrats know that Bill Clinton gave small, feel-good targeted tax cuts a very good name...