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Nonetheless, Senators Mitchell and Chafee this week will resume their efforts to amend Chafee's bipartisan "mainstream" bill in ways that might attract majority support. One of the bill's most controversial provisions would reduce the federal-tax break for many of those who obtain health insurance through their employers. This tax subsidy costs the Treasury $74 billion a year, fuels health-care inflation and disproportionately benefits workers with the most generous health plans. Capping this tax break is widely considered good policy but bad politics, and is unlikely to win the approval of more than 40 Senators...
...that they want to stop battering a loved one but don't know how. Others have been frightened by the charges against O.J. Simpson and voice fears about their own capacity to do harm. "They're worried they could kill," says Rob Gallup, executive director of AMEND, a Denver-based violence prevention and intervention group. "They figure, 'If ((O.J.)) had this fame and happiness, and chose to kill, then what's to prevent...
...during that evening of the last council meeting, Sayeed expressed an insight which we have been repeating for months: "I've lost faith in the council now and forever, and I think many people have." Swift and serious reform in the fall might allow everyone to amend such an assessment...
...school's Honor Committee plans to educate the student body about the implementation of the code and amend the code's definitions and interpretation based on student feedback, according to The Harbus News...
...calls to reserve public housing for the poorest of the poor, the Administration is proposing a series of economic incentives designed to create mixed-income developments where the role models Lane seeks (mostly poor too, but working nonetheless) can live without bankrupting themselves. To this end, HUD will shortly amend its rules so local authorities can prefer working families over welfare recipients as they fill apartment vacancies from waiting lists that now total an astonishing 6 million people nationwide. Rent caps are coming too. Currently families pay 30% of their income in rent, a figure that climbs as earnings rise...