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...Week--education--and spent their time rebutting Gore and explaining (and then explaining again) Bush's plan. This marked the campaign's first serious message derailment since last February, when Bush visited Bob Jones University while slugging it out with John McCain in the South Carolina primary. After a less than lucid detour into budget baselines, tax cuts and available surpluses during a stump speech in Des Moines, Iowa, on Monday, Bush brought the issue up again, unprompted, on his campaign plane the next day. "I've got to do a better job of making it clear," he said, launching...
Half the surplus will be needed for Social Security, and both candidates promise that money is off limits. And the projected $2.2 trillion that remains may turn out to be far less. For one thing, the CBO estimates do not account for the fact that many popular tax breaks now scheduled to expire will almost certainly be renewed. The projections also assume that discretionary spending, such as the defense and education budgets, will grow no faster than inflation. Judging from recent history, Congress is unlikely to show that kind of restraint. "At best, we have a small surplus, nothing like...
...Explorer in the late '80s, the company had concerns about the appropriate level of tire pressure for the vehicle. Internal documents from 1989, leaked to the media two weeks ago, show that company engineers, instead of making more substantial improvements to the SUV's stability, advised inflating tires to less than the maximum level to decrease the chance of a rollover, even though underinflated tires can in turn increase the risk of tread separation. Ford vehemently rejects the notion that tire pressure played any role, pointing out that similar Goodyear tires on its Explorer SUVs had virtually none...
...score disparity points to another persistent criticism of the test: that it is simply too easy. Its format, almost entirely multiple choice, is less demanding than many of the newfangled state exams, which require students to show their work on math problems and to answer essay questions. The writing segment of the Texas high school exit exam last spring consisted of just 40 multiple-choice grammar questions and a letter-writing assignment. A 1998 report by Harvard researcher Sandra Stotsky, commissioned by the Tax Research Association, concluded that the reading test declined in complexity in each of the previous three...
Going on the offensive against Gore's character is a risk for George W. Bush, since he's more or less built a campaign on not doing so: that is, on elevating the "tone" of public discourse. (Of course, the notion that it's somehow not cricket to suggest that your opponent should not be elected is one of the more ridiculous newer rules of politics, but Bush has been one of its chief advocates.) As a safeguard, "Really" (financed by the Republican National Committee but OK'd by the Bush camp) follows the trendy and insulting strategy of trying...