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Some Congressmen have meanwhile gone ahead on the issue. A bill co-sponsored by Democrats Henry Waxman and Gerald Sikorski spreads the burden of paying for emissions reductions. Under the plan, a 1 cent per kilowatt tax would be levied nationwide on utility customers. The $2 billion raised by the tax would be used to subsidize scrubbers for the dirtiest Midwestern power plants. Tax revenues would finance nearly 90 percent of the cost of the scrubbers, which could reduce sulfur-dioxide emissions by about 40 percent in 10 years' time...
...Hampshire primary. The House Telecommunications Subcommittee has been holding hearings this year concerning the effect of TV projections on final vote tallies. The problem first received widespread attention after the 1980 Presidential contest, when President Jimmy Carter's early concession prompted as much as two per cent of the Western electorate to stay home, according to several studies. Although this probably didn't cause Carter's defeat, the results of state-level contests may have been decisively affected. The practice of spot-polling voters as they leave the polls, and instantaneous transmission of the results to TV screens, may have...
...hate them, it could learn an important lesson." On many levels, Israel knows its Moslem neighbors only too well it has met them on the battlefield in four bloody wars, all, with the possible exception of the 1956 Suez conflict, unhated by the Arabs. In addition, over 60 per cent of Israel's Jewish citizens, many of them fluent in Arabic, immigrated, often at gunpoint, or are the descendants of immigrants from Arab lands where they were subjected to centuries of discrimination and sometimes outright persecution unmatched even by Israel's treatment of the West Bank Arabs. If Israel does...
...that helped fuel Israel's agricultural miracle. Succumbing to Arab pressure due to their dependence on oil the African states ultimately expelled the Israeli advisors during the late 60's and early '70s. The oil-producing Arab states repaid their African friends by raising oil prices by 1000 per cent during the Yom Kippur War, thus unleashing havoc on most Third World economies Money originally allocated for agricultural and industrial projects had to be suddenly diverted to meet soaring energy bills. The consequence of OPEC's banditry is the setback of the development process by at least a decade...
...council's budget earmarks $700 for "constituent services"--including newsletters for each district and council-sponsored social functions--but this year not a single cent has been spent. Melendez said...