Word: may
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...President is staring history in the face on this Thursday morning. Given a successful resolution of the gulf crisis, scholars will pronounce his policy a success. If he gets into a stalemated desert war or simply puts off a bloody confrontation by a few months or years, he may be judged harshly...
...practice the kind of creative accounting that shifts one year's outlays into the next. But with the economy slumping and voters raising a fuss at the very whisper of new taxes, the assumptions of the '80s are not working anymore. Now 29 states are facing budget deficits. That may be business as usual in Washington, but most states are obliged by their laws to maintain a balanced budget...
...enough. Facing a $1 billion deficit, the state legislature met in special session two weeks ago to adopt a package of cuts that nibbled at school spending and hospitals. When Cuomo took off for ^ Washington three days later to deliver a speech that warned about federal budget deficits, he may have hoped his troubles were over for a while. No such luck. On the same day Republican state comptroller Ned Regan announced that because revenue projections had been too optimistic, the state was still facing a budget shortfall of $500 million...
...overnight, and we still cannot do it today. Imagine the scenario had the opposition ((Solidarity)) taken over in the autumn of 1981 and inherited such an economic situation on the eve of winter, when there were already serious shortages in the marketplace. It would have been a catastrophe and may have even made impossible all the changes that have taken place this past year...
...impatient. Unfortunately, that is occurring at a time when politically things are not the best. All kinds of demons are appearing -- nationalism, anti-Semitism and populism. I understand this is a time of transition. But lifting the lid from a pot where a new dish is being cooked may not be a good idea...