Word: budgets
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...number of tax brackets while eliminating loopholes, and the lowest-income families may not be any better off. "It's a lot easier to talk about in general terms than it is to design policies that meet those objectives," says Robert Reischauer, former head of the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office...
...Bush, getting there means having a credible plan that the G.O.P. can rally around--and that will attract swing voters--after congressional Republicans finish brawling with the White House over this year's budget. It won't be easy. But that's what conference calls were invented...
...example of congressional road-blocking involves attempts to raise fuel-efficiency standards for popular sport-utility vehicles and vans, which have long had a free ride by being classified as light trucks. For the past four years, opponents have annually attached a rider to the Department of Transportation's budget prohibiting the DOT from raising the standards to equal those for ordinary cars--a move environmentalists say would save 1 million bbl. of oil a day. Backers of the rider argue that they are protecting auto-industry jobs and giving consumers the vehicles they want, but now they are running...
...seem to be. Instant messaging, or IM, in fact, handles more missives each day than the U.S. Postal Service. Besides relying on it to evaluate their popularity levels, teenagers use IM to swap homework tips and gossip; Internet start-ups employ it in lieu of a long-distance budget; home users love it for all those times you just don't want to pick up the phone...
Ahhh, yes. Another tourist spotting. While other Metro commuters busy themselves with fresh copies of the Washington Post or the latest figures from the Office of Management and Budget, I have another hobby: I watch tourists. Each morning and evening, as I ride the red line in and out of the city, I have taken to eavesdropping, snooping and spying on the visitors to my native land...