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WASHINGTON, D.C.: The Senate Finance Committee approved a broad sweeping tax bill, including a 20 cent hike in cigarette taxes to finance health insurance for poor children. The bill, which aims to produce a net tax cut of $85 billion over five years, will go to the Senate floor next week. Other provisions of the bill retained the $500-per-child tax credit and some $32 billion in education tax incentives. But even though the bill is much more Clinton-friendly than the harsher House version, it is likely to face opposition from the Administration for not providing enough...
...existing stores, turned negative for six consecutive quarters through the third quarter of 1996, an unheard-of reversal for a company that lives on growth. Greenberg had to improve McDonald's value equation fast. "The question is, What do you do about that? Lower prices a couple of cents on everything, or go on TV and talk about 55[cent] meals?" He called the media department and got out the price...
...City of Cambridge installs parking meters for the first time, charging one cent per 12 minutes along Mass. Ave., Brattle Street and Boylston Street (now JFK Street...
...balanced budget bill cruised to House approval by a 333- 99 vote, dodging last-minute bullets in both the House and Senate and clearing the way for a final vote as early as Thursday. A budget-busting House addendum to boost highway expenditures was rejected, along with a 43 cent increase in cigarette taxes proposed in the Senate to fund health care for the children of the working poor. The White House and GOP leaders lobbied vigorously against the defeated amendments, fearing they would puncture the hard-fought consensus reached after months of negotiations. House Transportation Committee chairman Bud Shuster...
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