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Howard's fans are right to claim that overstuffed government code books could use a good going-over. The tricky part is arriving at a principle--or, to use the dirty word, a rule--to guide the housecleaning. Without solid and even confining rules for the bureaucrats we spend so much time complaining about, who is ready to trust them to exercise their power? And without well-crafted rules that ensure strict, maybe even overly strict, compliance, how do we prevent a return to the worst days of polluted water, unwholesome foods, bad air and bloody assembly lines...
...When students and the administration can agree on an acceptable code of conduct, then we can start to change the norms around binge drinking," he said...
President Clinton today pledged to sign legislation that combines tax deductions for the self-employed with a huge tax break for media mogulRupert Murdoch. TIME Washington correspondent John Dickerson says such there are thousands of similar exemptions in the tax code, creating the complicated tax structure that Republicans say they want to dismantle. The bill, approved by Congress, eventually would let an estimated 3.2 million self-employed people deduct 30 percent of theirhealth insurance premiums. It also would eliminate tax breaks for companies that sell TV stations to minorities, while retaining the benefit for Murdoch's contract to sell...
While Sun is itself working on Windows NT and MacOS versions of the software, the company is opening the doors to other possible versions (such as a Windows 3.1 version) by making the source code available online so that programmers can experiment freely...
...commission recommended that the buildings be protected under Chapter 2.78 of the city code which protects buildings which are deemed "significant." This designation would permanently halt the hotel's plans...