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Nervous about rosy surplus projections, Senate moderates have floated the idea of a "trigger" that would postpone tax cuts in later years if there's no surplus to cover them. Bill Thomas, House Ways and Means Committee chairman, has ideas of his own, such as moving the tax-rate cuts through his committee before taking up other parts of the package. "You know, Bill," Bush joked with Thomas at a White House meeting, "you can pass anything you want as long as it's my bill." The two men laughed--but both knew that wasn't the case...
...Lamour was around in the first six "Road" movies, but her function was what Alfred Hitchcock called the MacGuffin - the trigger to the plot, the prize that Bing usually won from Bob. Women had to be in Crosby movies, the way songs and a standard-issue villain did. But these were jut narrative conventions. Bing was, if not a man's man, a guy's guy; women were ornaments to his self-esteem but not central to it. "In a lifetime of tears and laughter," he declaims with trembling sonority in "Rio," "it has been my discovery that friendship between...
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...based on the notion of not paying down the national debt too fast - a possibility that nobody in Washington but Greenspan seems to take seriously. And Dodd also did his best to pin the Fed chairman down on what is fast emerging as Democrats' sharpest line of attack: "the trigger." If the surpluses don't pan out - and the way Schumer had it figured, the surpluses were already spent - shouldn't the tax cuts be able to be cut off, to save the balanced budget...
...trigger" question, well, it all depends on what pulls the trigger - economic woes or higher spending. Greenspan went back and forth, back and forth, and finally left the pros and cons for Congress to weigh. To which Dodd, pink and shaking with laughter, replied, "Some of my friends are for A, some of my friends are for B, I'm for my friends - is that pretty much what you're saying...