Word: problems
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...they work additional hours, on a monthly basis rather than at the start of the year. This means that the payments for October, November, and December of the year 2000 would go on the fiscal year 2001 budget, turning about $9 billion in costs into the next Congress' problem. That means that GOP leaders can claim to have a $400 million surplus without touching Social Security, as long as no one looks at next year's books...
...sense, the proposal's only virtue is its biggest liability: it doesn't reduce the tax credit, but only delays the payment until next year--the problem of being over budget still isn't solved. Regardless of the problems it will cause for next year's budget, the proposal also has the immediate disadvantage of forcing the working poor to wait months for tax refunds that they have earned. The money from the EITC is often used to pay down debts or saved to generate interest, and to the working poor, if not to the government, a delay does mean...
...drugs, rock and roll and all that other bad stuff was far, far away--across 96th Street, that is. Blight was a problem only in the abstract, a construct of my parents' liberal imaginations...
...once, the problem for the Harvard football team in 1998 wasn't a lack of respect. It was the inability to live up to billing...
...Sending Sayegh - who was arrested in Canada after the bombing - back to Saudi Arabia could solve another touchy problem for Washington. At the time of the Dahran attack, President Clinton vowed that any country whose government was found to have been involved would face retaliation. "But," says TIME Middle East bureau chief Scott Macleod, "the attack occurred before the election of President Khatami, who has clearly demonstrated a commitment to end state terrorism and normalize Iran?s relations with the rest of the world. Given Washington?s desire to strengthen his reformist government against its hard-line opponents...