Word: third
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Crimson mustered its first and only strike in the 19th minute when Costello netted her third goal of the season. Senior sweeper Brooke McCarthy initiated the play with a pass up the sideline to freshman midfielder Caitlin Fisher. Fisher then sent a booming ball into the box that deflected off a Columbia defender and found the foot of Costello, who fired it into the lower left corner of the goal...
...third and final game was the closest of the weekend...
PLAN: Devote more than a third of the projected surplus--$1.6 trillion--to tax cuts, including a broad cut for all income brackets. Double the child tax credit, give a credit to married couples regardless of whether they pay the marriage penalty, and repeal the estate...
IMPACT: Nearly everyone gets a tax cut--particularly the wealthiest third of taxpayers. The long-term effect is cloudy: Bush argues that his cuts will encourage the economy to keep growing, but the cuts could lead to inflation, and if things turn sour, ballooning deficits could return. And Congress is currently spending a fifth of the surplus...
...straight shot at Gore's central weakness, the impression he gives voters that he doesn't quite know who he is. True populists who were sick of Clinton's slushy Third Way claptrap love all that fighting talk. But if they really want action, it's Nader who's proposing a Marshall Plan for the inner cities and an $8.50 minimum wage. Instead Gore promises tax credits for college and making that commute a little easier and a prescription-drug entitlement for every grandma. But the gentle program aimed right at the swing voters gets lost because they...