Word: bit
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Without increasing the federal budget, the Government might sensibly redirect some of its stimulative spending?a bit less for the booming Sunbelt, a bit more for the Northern and Midwestern states, where the urban underclass is concentrated. In 1975, for every tax dollar sent to Washington from the Midwestern states, 760 returned; the Northeastern states got back 860; but the South collected $1.14 and the West $1.20. One reason for the disparity is that many corporations have their headquarters in the Northeast and Midwest, from which they pay taxe based on their total national sales. But there are other factors...
...savings plan has been in operation for some time in Michigan, which has the nation's second largest Blue Cross plan. As a result, they say, Blue Cross-Blue Shield froze Michigan doctors' fees, and increases in hospital costs were held to about 12% a year, a bit below the national average...
...Benjamin Harrison, and to the presidential Madisons. Family connections aside, says Brooks-Baker, "over the past six centuries, many of President Carter's ancestors have reached positions of immense importance. Some were very intelligent, but they didn't produce much with their brains. They were a little bit sleepy-like the President's brother...
...office, Ray keeps his door open to almost any employee who wants to see him-though he always has a stack of phone messages on his desk to riffle through if the conversation drags. Some of his colleagues are concerned that he may even be a bit too polite and deferential. Says one Dallas businessman: "He's the last one out of the elevator and the last one walking down the hall. But I'm not sure he can twist arms or kick butts like he'll have to in order to run a good business...
After 17 years of gigs with Husband Ike, Tina Turner is divorced and gyrating alone. The "Acid Queen" has added some soft ballads to her repertory and toned down her husky voice. "The ears get a chance to rest a little bit," says Tina, 37. When she tried out her new sound in Las Vegas, her backup group, the Ikettes, was gone but her ex, Ike, was right there -in the audience. "We're friends really. There's no war," says Tina. Their 1976 divorce, she feels, was good for her. Explains Tina: "Before, Ike was always there...