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...representing, he has said, the top 2% of wage earners. The Bush projections are based on the 2% figure -- which actually includes people with incomes of less than $200,000. The Clinton camp has acknowledged the slight discrepancy but insisted the Governor will stick to the $200,000 cutoff...
...people on the islands. Many of the civilians living there were attracted by the high salaries that the Soviet Union used to provide anyone willing to work in such remote places. Today those who came only for the money are bitterly disappointed, faced with sharp price increases and the cutoff of special supplementary pay. That has led many to welcome the notion of a return to Japanese control -- and spawned fanciful dreams of compensation that some guess could reach $100,000 for any leave takers. Says a young mother who came with her husband on a work contract six years...
...first week of U.N.-imposed economic sanctions did nothing to halt the fighting in Bosnia-Herzegovina, where Serb forces have seized more than two- thirds of the territory and are bombarding the capital, Sarajevo. But the cutoff of trade, including oil, did make officials in the rump state of Yugoslavia squirm publicly...
...abortion is made illegal, the feminist and gay pro-life groups reason, those doctors and irresponsible fathers who ultimately are responsible for the deaths of women and children would pay the penalties for their actions. And, as the cutoff of state funding of abortion in Texas a few years ago indicated, making abortions more difficult to obtain decreases the number of abortions. But it does not necessarily increase the number of women's deaths...
...collapse of the Soviet Union and the cutoff of most of its aid carried a blunt message to Syria, another major backer of terrorists. There was no longer any likelihood of becoming a regional superpower with armaments supplied by Moscow. As Iran took a more moderate course, Syrian President Assad had to worry about becoming isolated if he continued to support the extremist factions...