Word: cuttingly
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...George wrote the song with Johnny Cash in mind, but Cash wouldn't touch it. Finally, Stonewall Jackson heard it and persuaded George to let him have it. It became Stonewall's first hit in 1959, and George cut it soon after for an album of other people's hits...
...economy guy. As the newfangled tech folk wallow in the remnants of their self-inflated bubble, Bush the oilman is primed to talk about old-fashioned Republican virtues like reduced government regulation, cheaper energy, smaller government and increased privatization - and, of course, a $1.3 trillion tax cut. It's all aimed at increasing the flow of capital and putting more spending money in American wallets...
...Greenspan will do what he can, which is cut interest rates, and it's likely to work. He can't bring back the tech sector to its former glory, and neither can Bush, but a few interest-rate cuts might juice up the Dow and put some money back in the system for business borrowers. For Bush, the prospect of a big across-the-board tax cut is more attractive than it's been in years, but he'd better make sure it's fiscally sound enough get a few kind words from Greenspan, who got the inflation-hawk bond...
...Ford years. For a new millennium in which the U.S. economy must learn to play without its superstar of the past eight years, some knowledge of the old problems - high energy prices, dispirited consumers, international uncertainty - could come in handy. The new Republican president remembers the Reagan tax cut. His advisers remember stagflation. As long as somebody remembers Gingrich, Clinton and the virtues of sound fiscal policy, a little spring turbulence could work out for all concerned...
...space for himself to push through tough economic measures, which he desperately needs to do. The government is basically bankrupt, and India is facing an economic slowdown. We're heading back into a terrible mess, but in a democracy as politically fractured as India's, it's hard to cut government spending. The alternative is privatization - the government owns everything from hotels to car factories, and all they've managed to privatize in recent years was a bakery - but there's strong ideological resistance. That may be tempting Vajpayee to distract people with the Ayodhya issue...