Word: cuttingly
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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PLAN: Devote more than a third of the projected surplus - $1.6 trillion - to tax cuts, including a broad cut for all income brackets. Double the child tax credit, give a credit to married couples regardless of whether they pay the marriage penalty, and repeal the estate...
...IMPACT: Nearly everyone gets a tax cut - particularly the wealthiest third of taxpayers. The long-term effect is cloudy: Bush argues that his cuts will encourage the economy to keep growing, but the cuts could lead to inflation, and if things turn sour, ballooning deficits could return. And Congress is currently spending a fifth of the surplus...
...arguing which candidate should. As this magazine's TV critic, I always like to see a new generation pay homage to the classics; for instance, that pro-Bush group's "remake" of "Daisy," the 1964 Lyndon B. Johnson ad that targeted Barry Goldwater as a dangerous extremist. Both ads cut from a little girl picking petals off a daisy to footage of a nuclear explosion. The new version accused Clinton and Gore of making America vulnerable to nuclear attack from "communist red China" (reminding voters under 45 what "red" means). A new pro-Gore ad assailed Bush's policies...
...cut through this clutter, campaigns relied heavily this year on prerecorded phone calls, including messages from celebrities like Norman Schwarzkopf and mother Barbara for Bush; and for Gore, Barbra Streisand, Stephen King and Ed Asner. The Democrats alone planned to make 40 million phone calls in the last 10 days of the campaign. (No word on how many smashed phones electronics stores have been asked to replace.) "Phone messages get more attention than other ads," says Jamieson. "If people agree with what they hear, they play it again and again for their friends." And you just know that folks like...
...slept on the floor of their cramped dormitory, members of the "18" had sneaked in with homemade knives and steel pipes and killed 11 of Cortes's homeboys. The attackers then gutted their victims and triumphantly strung their intestines along the prison barbed-wire like party streamers. They also cut the ears off the corpses and tossed them over the wall for the stray dogs. "It was a grotesque barbarity," says prison psychologist Oscar Suazo. "After it was all over, the 18's were laughing and flashing the gang sign...