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...Treasury Department wants to make permanent an IRS oversight board to help supervise the computer upgrade. The plan would allow for more outside consultants to help with the computer overhaul. The plan also would let the IRS contract with private businesses to assist with processing tax returns and collect on tax deadbeats, an initiative that could be ripe for its own pitfalls if, for instance, collection agencies are given the authority to garnish wages or seize bank accounts. Another important reform: changing budgeting procedures. Congress currently funds the IRS on a yearly basis, making long-term planning difficult. The Administration...
...last minute tacked on a substantial increase in Pell grants, which pay college costs for some 3.7 million of America's neediest students. But critics are worried too that getting more people into college will lower education standards at public institutions, which spend more on each student than they collect in tuition and don't have big endowments to fall back on. Already in Georgia total state spending on colleges is up, while spending per student is down...
...followed old-fashioned police techniques, quietly went about their business and it paid off. It looks as if they have cracked this case.? The suspect, whom the Los Angeles TImes reported to be t ied to a Russian car theft ring, was tracked down after an informant attempted to collect the $100,000 reward offered by The National Enquirer. Police, who are also questioning two other men in the murder, reportedly located the gun used in the January slaying after the informant identified the area where it had been dumped...
...like your windows at home. When it's cold outside, there's condensation on the inside of the windows. Well, there's a kind of barrier in the walls [of the Werner Otto Hall] that works the same way to collect water," she said...
...several Catholic hospitals. Intensely, not to say neurotically, pious, he went to Mass as often as five times a day. For the last 40 years of his life he dwelled in a small rented room on Chicago's North Side, from which he would timorously sally forth to collect street trash. After his pauper's death, hundreds of empty Pepto-Bismol bottles and nearly a thousand balls of string were found in his room. He had no friends and talked to himself incessantly in various voices. He did, however, have a secret life of disconcerting size and visionary intensity...