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School Nixes Plan to Buy Supercomputer...
...wake of concerns raised by the Department of Commerce over Japanese companies' submitting below-cost bids to build a supercomputer for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the school announced early this week that it had cancelled plans to buy one of the ultra-powerful devices...
Testimony during the trial, which became the subject of national attention and was broadcast on cable television, indicated the victim stopped at the tavern to buy cigarettes, and took someone's offer to stay and drink and watch pool...
...even with rent control there are strong reasons for favoring the more affluent. Landlords can rely on them to pay their rents on time and to buy the units should the laws be changed to allow condominium conversion...
Tighten up interest deductions. America's most venerable tax shelter is the deduction on home-mortgage interest, a provision that was originally created to help families buy their first home. But perhaps that write-off is too generous. Earlier this month the House Ways and Means Committee adopted a $12.3 million tax-increase package that, among other measures, would finally put a cap on the deduction, limiting it to the first $1 million in mortgage debt. But why not lower the boom even further? As Committee Chairman Dan Rostenkowski pointed out, "With the people I represent, if you talk...