Word: cut
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...proper location. St. John says that he "tough[s] it out with the rest" of the smokers outside. Years ago, Leavitt and Pearce used to fill this need, Macdonald says, allowing only those who had "earned their right" to frequent the store. De facto, freshmen never made the cut...
...injured men, the Scotsman reports, had his face basically cut down the middle--yet somehow survived. Some of his fingers were also injured...
...message for his opponents: Get ready for the coming of a kinder, gentler Ronald Reagan. The evidence: a bold tax plan that puts his money where his "compassionate conservatism" sound bite is, tempering supply-side Reaganomics with aid to the working poor. It includes a $1.3 trillion tax cut over 10 years, with extra relief to poor families. The plan received a conservative blessing Wednesday in the form of a Wall Street Journal op-ed piece, which said "the Bush plan at least moves in the Reagan direction and realizes that taxpayers who built the current boom need incentives...
...Achilles' heel: Bush will be left open to criticism because he couldn't find room for a capital gains tax cut. "Steve Forbes will attack it as a half-measure, as a tweaking of the system, not an overhaul," says TIME Washington correspondent James Carney. But the bigger problems could come in a general election. Recent polls show that voters are more concerned with further reducing the national debt and shoring up Medicare and education than with tax cuts. So while wooing much of his own party, Bush could alienate many of the "Reagan Democrats" who are less concerned with...
...budget signed this month by Gov. A. Paul Cellucci allows students and parents to deduct a percentage of the interest on undergraduate student loans from their state income tax. The cut exists for the entire length of the debt as long as the debtor lives in the Commonwealth...