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When it comes to these social issues, Bush is mainly preoccupied, even more than many of his G.O.P. brethren, with further restricting access to the welfare system, which pays an average of $188 a month to poor families, making it one of the stingiest in the country. In 1995 Bush pushed for a two-year time limit on welfare recipients, with no opportunity to reapply. In 1995 and 1997 he wanted so-called family caps, in which those with two or more children would not receive additional assistance if they had another child. And in 1999 he opposed a large...
...their rivalry with external competitors often consumes less energy than their alpha-male, intramural head butting. When the cable division wanted to brand its high-speed cable-modem business Road Runner, the Warner Bros. marketers--with straight faces--tried to extract a billion-dollar licensing fee from their corporate brethren for use of the cartoon bird. If any one thing has made Levin a success, it is his long-range strategic vision. But his willingness to let his managers run their businesses as they see fit--as long as they deliver double-digit earnings growth--runs a close second...
...dotcoms and their Net-infrastructure brethren have proved immune to higher rates. How else can you explain the NASDAQ's 80% increase, the greatest uplift in any U.S. average's history, in light of the major interest-rate rises of 1999? Put simply, any Fed moves to tighten may set off a further stampede into the hottest stocks around...
...instant, we are passing on our right a straw-hatted farmer on horseback and, to our left, a woman on a bicycle. Symbolism contained: each of our vehicles represents a different element of what makes Cuba Cuba. The bicycle (1) is the Cubans' resourcefulness and symbiosis with their communist brethren (about a million bikes were donated by the Chinese, decades ago). The army truck (2) is the constant (though relatively sedate and casual, we'd say) military presence. We are the tourists (3), perhaps the future, our dollars feeding into Cuba's increasingly dominant second economy, largely inaccessible to Cuba...
Dumont has been getting off easy compared with some of his brethren. Cities across the U.S. are toughening the rules of engagement in the war on homelessness. Thirty-five municipalities, from Tampa, Fla., to Tucson, Ariz., are enacting or enforcing punitive anti-vagrancy ordinances, banning everything from loitering on median strips to getting food handouts in public parks. Fed up with the homeless, who, they say, are increasingly aggressive, violent and bad for business, at least 24 cities now conduct nightly "police sweeps" of their streets. In New York City, Mayor Rudy Giuliani vowed to clamp down after a homeless...