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...Bush, tax cuts are what the grand unified theory is to cosmologists: the secret to everything. Tax cuts create jobs, they boost spending, they lift the markets--they'll even paint your house for you. But Bush is having a hard time convincing others of that. The Senate has already cleaved in two the $726 billion price tag for Bush's plan. Even the normally lockstep House has voted to cap the cut at $550 billion. The public isn't enthusiastic either--only 42% think tax cuts are a good idea--but Bush continues to push headlong into the battle...
...another recent White House session. That may explain why the President refuses to give up on trying to end the tax on dividends, the most politically unpopular element of his package. His advisers also believe that elimination of this so-called double taxation can provide a quick "optimism boost" to the stock markets. White House officials point to forecasts of a quick rise in the Dow of between 5% and 20% if the measure is passed. "There is no more important measure of consumer confidence than the markets," says a senior adviser. If the markets go up, in other words...
...details of each show. In between meetings about marketing his movies, he reads every outline and script and watches each daily and edit. He gives his notes only by telephone or in person, never in writing, as most producers do. ("Personal contact is good. We try to boost up the people who work here.") And he doesn't yell. That's because screaming was the bailiwick of his old partner Don Simpson, who played the completely insane cop to Bruckheimer's laid-back cop until he died of a cocaine overdose in 1996. Bruckheimer has never made the Jungian leap...
...Stoudt's Blonde Double MaiBock, which uses honey in its brewing to boost the alcohol content, ranked highest with our tasters, who thought the bright, rich flavor lived up to its perfect amber color...
...shots that they were getting in the first half were good shots,” Shaughnessy said. “When [Mancini] came back in the second half, it gave our team a huge boost, making save after save after save. It is what got us going...