Word: ones
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...much of the past decade state budgets were pushed into the black by a buoyant economy that kept tax revenues pouring in just fast enough. In a pinch, states could unveil a new lottery, nudge up the sales tax or 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...
CONNECTICUT has an 8% sales tax, one of the nation's highest, which once compensated handsomely for the fact that the state had no income tax. With consumers on a buying binge, the state could afford to let spending rise 59% between 1984 and '88. Then recession hit, the shopping spree ended and sales- tax revenue was reduced to a trickle. For this fiscal year, Connecticut is looking at a $500 million shortfall, which is expected to triple in the next. That would amount to 20% of the state's projected $7.9 billion budget for fiscal 1991, proportionately the highest...
Annual "bests" and "mosts" express a human instinct for putting things in order. This year's crop also reflects a shift from a time of ostentation to one of restraint, unease and do-goodism -- plus flashes of camp and cheekiness...
...Absolutely. I have thought and said so since the first moment. There is a saying by Tadeusz Kosciuszko ((the 18th century Polish military hero)) that one sometimes has to lose a lot in order to save everything...
...understand the drama of that moment, I would like also to be remembered as the initiator of the round-table talks with Solidarity in 1989. This was a breakthrough, and it became an example for others. It is not that the man who declared martial law and the one who initiated the round- table talks were two totally different people. One might even say that had it not been for martial law, there could have been no round table...