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...people either because they already have them or do not need them." The Colorado amendment was approved in 1992 by 53.4 percent of the state's voters, but a state court blocked the law from being enforced. The law would have nullified gay-rights ordinances in Denver, Boulder and Aspen and barred any other state or local government from enacting similar laws...
...MILLION DOLLARS THAT TAXPAYers spend to promote Uncle Ben's rice in Poland, Turkey and Saudi Arabia. The $2 billion government outlay that helps keep electric power a bargain in Aspen and Hilton Head. The $3 million that a cargo-ship owner can expect to pocket for making his vessel available to Uncle Sam in wartime--even though the Pentagon no longer wants it. Was it only a year ago that the full-throated budget warriors of the Republican revolution were unleashing a pitiless campaign to cut off the tens of billions of dollars expended each year on subsidies...
...THEIR STYLE THAT TODAY'S millionaires differ most strikingly from the new rich of the past. Rather than build huge houses of questionable taste in Newport or Palm Beach or Aspen, the brand-new millionaires may live in two-bedroom apartments and wear T shirts and jeans. Rather than jet to Tahoe for the weekend in their Gulfstream, they are liable to be with the kids at the neighborhood soccer league. Running-shoe chic is often a pose in Hollywood and Silicon Valley, but this modesty appears genuine. Today's newly superrich are models of free enterprise, except...
...Helms' 1990 foe, Harvey Gantt, wants to make another run at him. Gantt has edged ahead of Helms in recent polls, yet Kerrey has encouraged Charlie Sanders, a former Glaxo chief executive, to run. Insiders say Kerrey touted Sanders to big Democratic contributors at a recent retreat in Aspen, Colorado. Officially, a Kerrey spokesman says both Gantt and Sanders would be fine candidates, although he acknowledges that Kerrey's praise for Sanders "confuses people." Gantt's backers plan a bloody primary, which ultimately would probably help re-elect Helms...
...Most other large charities concerned with the poor (as opposed to nonprofit cultural or advocacy groups, which are sometimes also called charities) get somewhat less government money than the Catholic group, but the average probably still exceeds 31% of their total annual budgets. According to Alan Abramson of the Aspen Institute, the congressional cuts could cost American for-the-poor charities as much as $70 billion during the next seven years...