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...Administration reduce the federal budget deficit to a surprising extent. Just one year ago, the Congressional Budget Office projected a whopping $284 billion shortfall for fiscal 1995, which begins next October, and $287 billion for fiscal 1996. But last month the nonpartisan CBO predicted the budget gap would narrow to $166 billion in 1996. That would trim the deficit to just 2.2% of the country's gross domestic product, the lowest level since 1979. "Clinton's tax increases and spending cuts are largely responsible," says CBO director Robert Reischauer. "We have taken an important step along the road to fiscal...
Last night Harvard's men's volley ball team played Laura and learned a similar sort of lesson in a narrow four-game win over Dartmouth in Hanover...
...Policy makers have been focusing on short terminterests, on the costs and benefits ofintervention," said Broz, who is an expert in theeconomic aspects of international affairs. "We'retoo focused on narrow costs in the immediateterm...
...women swimmers (5-1, 5-1) put in two all-around solid performances this weekend at Blodgett pool in a narrow 143-157 loss to Princeton on Saturday and a convincing 135-91 win over Pennsylvania, but were in no way satisfied...
...Clinton's address, White House press secretary Dee Dee Meyers echoed Gore and Gergen; she didn't know what was on the table, only that the White House wasn't going to get involved. "Actually," insists Reed, disagreeing with Gore and Meyers,"we want to work with Congress to narrow it so we get only the really bad guys...