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The danger lurking just offshore like a surplus-eating shark is that Bill Clinton will ultimately agree to something like a $600-billion tax cut in order to clear the decks for some sort of grand compromise on Social Security and Medicare.
16 billion, not accounting for plan sponsor responses to reduce that impact.
The world's population reached 6 billion.
It grew from 5.2 billion pieces in 1987 to 9.9 billion pieces in 1997.
They are the off-lead at USA Today (and also covered in that paper's front-page "cover story"), which leads instead with the news that in working out the $200 billion highway bill, congressional negotiators dropped the provision that would have set a tough national drunk-driving standard.