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This is a refundable credit paid by the IRS to below-median-income workers that has, over the last 25 years, swelled both in size and in the esteem with which it is held by Republicans and Democrats alike.
As Washington's economy improved, the reserve fund swelled to today's $1 billion, creating a political opportunity for I-695 mastermind Tim Eyman, who makes his living selling mail-order sorority wristwatches out of his Mukilteo garage.
The crackdown on Chechnya has swelled the popularity of Boris Yeltsin's flailing administration, but the Russian system remains robustly pluralistic.
The U.S. economy grew 4% as a whole in 1999, but in the final quarter of the year, wage and benefits costs to US businesses swelled by a higher-than-expected 1.1%.
The New York Times leads with a Census Bureau report that the ranks of Americans without health insurance swelled by 1.7 million last year.