Word: makeing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Others in the crowd were optimistic, hoping that the day-long celebration would help remedy racial injustice not only in South Africa, but also in Boston. "What he has done is make people in Boston recognize that when you hate anyone for racial reasons, you create problems," said local resident Bill Smith...
Although I didn't make much of it at the time, I have since learned to cherish that experience...
...most part, Trump has steadfastly denied his difficulties, perhaps observing a lesson from his own book. "The worst thing you can possibly do in a deal is seem desperate to make it," Trump wrote in his 1987 best seller, The Art of the Deal. "That makes the other guy smell blood, and then you're dead." But Trump's arrogant business style is haunting him now that he needs understanding. "Trump's personality works against him," says a top investment banker. "His own behavior created a level of scrutiny about his judgment, his ability to pay and his 'high moral...
...lawmakers cannot avoid. Slower economies, especially in the Northeast, have left more than 25 states facing deficits. Since every one of them but Vermont is required by law to have a balanced budget, deficits mean tax increases, spending cuts or both. Moreover, many states have been hiking taxes to make up for declining federal funds for clean water, job training, low-income housing and sewage treatment. Increased state and local taxes, as well as a larger Social Security bite, explain why, for all the ballyhoo over the Reagan-era tax cuts, Americans today pay roughly 22% of their income...
...Make the courts force you to do it. "I was between a rock and a hard place," said Texas Governor William Clements last week. After two vetoes, he had finally accepted a $520 million sales-tax increase to comply with a state supreme court order to remedy disparities in school spending. "There was no other way. It was not a pleasant circumstance, and it's not one that I am happy with," he said. Clements may have been protesting too much. Texas politicians are practiced at shifting the blame onto judges: last year the state approved a $400 million bond...