Word: brings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...computes the yearly increase to bring rents to a "fair market" level and takes into account variations in location, size, utility service and other factors, Kossan said...
...every cook knows, tinkering with a favorite recipe can bring grunts of disapproval from family and friends. For a food company, such tampering invites an even greater disaster: plummeting sales. Today, though, food manufacturers are busily reformulating some of their most popular products. Early this month, Keebler became the fourth major company since last fall -- joining Pepperidge Farm, Kellogg and Sunshine Biscuits -- to announce a switch in ingredients. The change: replacing highly saturated tropical oils with less saturated fats...
...increase, who range from Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan to Illinois Democrat Dan Rostenkowski, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee. They argue that a gas-tax boost -- the proposals span from about 7 cents per gal. to 50 cents -- would be simple to administer and would bring a gusher of new revenues. As fringe benefits, the tax would help the environment and the U.S. trade position...
Still, supporters of a gas-tax increase say it has emerged as the best option for cutting the deficit. Each 1 cents per gal. would bring in $1 billion in annual revenue, according to a widely used rule of thumb. Rostenkowski last month suggested a 15 cents-per-gal. increase but would probably settle for less. To ease the burden on low-income motorists, Rostenkowski would provide them with income tax credits. Says Rostenkowski: "I don't think it's as regressive as people make it out to be." Advocates of the tax also point out that by throttling back...
...world of poisonous gases, but in the end did little more than reaffirm the protocol. While the delegates expressed "serious concern at recent violations" of the protocol, they did not even specifically condemn Iraq and Iran, whose use of toxic weapons in the gulf war helped bring about the Paris conference...