Word: cuttingly
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...decision he made to improve his profile during the primaries. At that time, his advisers believed their most serious challenge would come from Steve ("Flat Tax") Forbes. They were worried that Forbes would paint Bush as soft on taxes, like his father. To counter that, Bush proposed a tax cut massive enough to impress fiscal conservatives, but one that also included a pro-working family element. Result: a $1.6 trillion promise. The irony: Forbes never caught fire. Bush found himself saddled with a jumbo tax cut against an opponent--McCain--who argued for being fiscally prudent and paying down debt...
Gore had a similar reason for touting what is by any measure a serious tax cut: he needed to react to Bush. That political reality is apparent to voters, and may be one reason many people aren't tuning into this debate. "He's got to cave in and respond to all of Bush's tax-cut talk," says Howard Richards, 68, a retired real estate broker who turned up last week at a Gore tax event in Florida. Another reason is that Gore knows Democrats argue against tax cuts at their peril. Gore's side "spent 20 years getting...
Gore has not abandoned all his Democratic tendencies. He makes up for his smaller tax cut with gigantic spending proposals like a proposed increase in child health-care coverage and a prescription-drug benefit under Medicare. Ultimately, Gore would spend about as much of the surplus as Bush. The only difference would be where the money goes. Once either set of proposals was in place, it would be no easier to scale back Gore's prescription-drug entitlement than to reverse Bush's tax cut. Says Reischauer: "Why should today's policymakers dissipate tomorrow's possible surpluses...
...into that trap. His campaign script called for him to spend last week wooing women and independents with education photo-ops and speeches in key states. But what was planned as a week of centrist appeals ended up being consumed by Bush's halting efforts to explain his tax-cut plan. In the first week of head-to-head campaigning after the conventions, Bush committed a cardinal sin: he let his opponent pull him off message...
...wilderness, the signal is more clear: wetlands, ponds and grasslands have replaced forests, and moose have moved in as caribou have moved out. On the Mackenzie River delta in Canada's Northwest Territories, Arctic-savvy Inuit inhabitants have watched with dismay as warming ground melted the traditional freezers they cut into the permafrost for food storage. Permafrost provides stiffening for the coastline in much of the north; where thawing has occurred, wave action has caused severe erosion. Some coastal Inuit villages are virtually marooned as the ground crumbles all around them. And as the ice retreats farther from the coast...