Word: grimmer
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Other studies paint a grimmer picture. The National Association of Women Business Owners puts the number of lost jobs nationally at 39 per small business over the past five years. It found that to prepare for the estate tax, half of all small businesses pay for insurance, 40% forgo investment, 40% plan to sell all or part of the business and 33% plan to incur debt--all choices that hurt the economy...
...education, health care and the environment," said the Vice President. "But saying it does not make it so. If he's a reformer, where are the results?" Bush brags about his record as Governor, promising the same success for the entire country, but Gore is pointing to a much grimmer Texas. On health care, which Bush largely ignored during his five years in office, Gore notes that the ranks of uninsured poor have increased during the Governor's tenure and that Bush tried to restrict the number of children covered by government-funded health insurance. In a befuddling reversal...