Word: trillions
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Maybe it was just a little misunderstanding, a thing that happens from time to time in every family. Maybe Al Gore really had someplace better to be at the moment Bill Clinton arrived on the South Lawn last Monday morning to announce that the gods had bestowed an extra trillion--with a t--dollars on the U.S. Treasury. Maybe Gore, a serious man who worries about serious things, had to polish the speech he was making that afternoon in Philadelphia on the war against cancer. Maybe the White House had pressed him to try to make the event, and Gore...
Indeed, the fear of "getting Amazoned" is fueling a boom in business-to-business e-commerce, a $131 billion-a-year industry that Forrester Research projects will skyrocket to $1.5 trillion by 2003. Colossuses such as GE and Cisco have led the way with "procurement marketplaces": in-house purchasing systems to streamline transactions with their suppliers...
...Trillion-dollar windfall or not, Bill Clinton is definitely still a somewhat parsimonious New Democrat. The President went public with his mostly pre-leaked Medicare reforms on Tuesday, a what's-not-to-like mix of senior-pleasing pork and future-inspired frugality. The headliner, a plan for prescription-drug coverage, would cost $118 billion over the next 10 years. But Clinton wants to add some copayments, nudge healthier people into cost-effective HMOs and increase competition among hospital-equipment contractors -? saving, by White House estimates, $44 billion over that same period. The less glamorous, below-the-fold story...
...doubled; workers employed by such firms have quadrupled; and sales have quintupled. According to the National Foundation for Women Business Owners, there are now 9.1 million women-owned companies, making up 38% of all U.S. businesses, with a work force of 27.5 million and annual sales of $3.6 trillion. Among the fields in which female ownership is growing fastest: construction, wholesale trade, transportation and communications, agriculture and manufacturing. --Megan Rutherford...
...White House on Monday to announce good news about what counts most for most Americans: money. Because the economy is going so well, he said, the federal government expects to rake in even more cash than the government?s prior best estimates -- a budget surplus $1 trillion bigger over the next 15 years than previously thought...