Word: capitols
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Gwynne says the IRS may deserve the public lashing it will receive. The committee will charge that the agency targets lower-and-middle-income people for audits and uses a quota system to rate agents. Some analysts are asking if the service's behavior is the result of Capitol Hill's own confusing and capricious tax laws ? but as Gwynne explains, the Congress-made-me-do-it defense won't fly. "The IRS has all kinds of people out there who are out of control," says Gwynne. "This history of harassment and overzealousness has nothing to do with...
That leaves an even shorter short list. The betting is on former Commerce Secretary and Trade Representative MICKEY KANTOR, who was disappointed when he didn't get the job in the first place. Also in the running are JOHN HILLEY, Clinton's point man on dealing with Capitol Hill, and National Security Adviser SANDY BERGER. But White House handicappers speculate that Hilley may have too many enemies in the White House and on the Hill, and Berger's chances suffer because he took over at the N.S.C. just a few months...
...returned from Madrid three weeks ago and I can confidently say that the biggest differences between it and New York are that in Spain's capitol the people wear less black clothing and the subway system is a lot cleaner. I could go into any cafeteria or restaurant and ask for una hamburguesa, the people conversed in English in lieu of a shared mother tongues and Harrison Ford's "Air Force One" was the most popular movie around...
...flap comes at a time when the A.M.A. least needs it. Once it commanded virtually unchallenged respect. Today its power, despite a membership of 300,000, is greatly diminished from its heyday in the 1960s, when it had enough clout on Capitol Hill to dictate substantial changes in Medicare laws. Older physicians in particular are dismayed that it has been unable to slow down the managed-care revolution that has deprived them of income and decision-making power over patients. Many younger physicians find the organization simply irrelevant...
...British rock band Radiohead's futuristic new album OK Computer (Capitol) is a bit like the troubled Russian space station Mir--it's a cool place to visit, but if you stay too long, things could start breaking down. The album's sound is refreshingly unique: long, meandering, melodic passages that take their own sweet time to work themselves out; jangling, spacey guitar work--all of it threaded together by singer Thom Yorke's yearning tenor, hitting and holding notes with almost operatic emotion. The lyrics display an X-Files-ish romanticism: one song, Subterranean Homesick Alien, is about...