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While Pepper's critics contend that he exploited the Administration's hastily prepared and ruefully withdrawn initial proposals for cutting Social Security benefits, he is liked and respected by House colleagues of both parties. Last January he became chairman of the House Rules Committee, which can determine not only the timing of legislation but sometimes whether a bill comes to a vote at all. He reluctantly relinquished his chairmanship of the House Select Committee on Aging. "It was wrenching," he says. "Like choosing between a brother and a sister...
National Guardsmen removed people by boat and helicopter, sometimes through attics. In Mississippi, corpses were washed out of cemeteries; in Louisiana, residents had to contend with snakes and swarms of fire ants flushed from their nests. Angry waters severed oil pipelines across the Homochitto River near Meadville, Miss., unleashing an estimated 30,000 bbl. of crude oil into the river. Officials in Louisiana, shoulder to shoulder with 140 inmates of state prisons pressed into service, filled sandbags...
...another 23%, for a total of 91%. If a company can juggle its books to transfer profits from its drilling operations to other areas, it can reduce the amount that is exposed to the high tax rate and pay the corporate rate, no more than 46%, instead. Critics contend that Arco does this by inflating its transportation costs. The company charges itself a high freight rate of about $4 per bbl. on oil it ships in its own tankers. The fee includes a so-called risk premium that is supposed to compensate independent tanker owners against the times when their...
...Mailer's editor before his own writing career prospered: "My feeling is that since he's married Norris he's been happier than he's ever been." Torres views the success of this marriage from a slightly different angle: "The other wives had to contend with the image. Now, because he's closer with himself, he's nicer to this wife...
...White Hotel was seen as a breakthrough novel partly because of its portrait of one of the most honest and complicated female characters in recent fiction. In Ararat, by contrast, the reader has to contend with many different voices, a new one at each level of storytelling. Furthermore, these voices are generally those of unpleasant men or stereotypical, one-dimensional women Cleopatra, it turns out, is the most complicated female character in the entire work...