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Additionally, it is wise to delay the implementation of last year’s referendum lowering the income tax from 5.85 percent to 5 percent. Voters who supported the measure were casting their ballots under very different economic circumstances, and it is the responsibility of our leaders to make sure that policy is able to be flexible enough to adapt to completely unforeseen events...
Members of the School Committee claimed that Turkel and the other Cambridge Civic Association-endorsed members of the Committee arranged for Segat to stay home in order to delay the vote...
...ever hammered by a nuclear blast, the reduced effectiveness of the device at ground level will be of little comfort, and Sept. 11 will seem like an unheeded warning. We must do whatever is necessary to prevent the proliferation of nuclear weapons, materials and expertise. We should not delay in implementing policies that will protect our great cities from this disaster. STEVEN PAYNE Westville...
...need for some form of neutral security force to be deployed from outside, the Northern Alliance is having none of it. Rabbani insists that Afghanistan is secure and needs no more foreign troops within its borders, and strong opposition from the Alliance appears to have persuaded Britain to delay the deployment of an advance guard of potential peacekeeping troops. It's not hard to see why the Alliance would oppose foreign intervention - right now Rabbani's force is the uncontested military power in much of Afghanistan, and that allows him to set the terms for a new regime...
...obvious win for the Senate, as well as for House Democrats who had largely voted against the bill that passed their chamber. Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta said it was hard to imagine airports actually exercising the bill's option to hire private baggage screeners. But Lott--who once held DeLay's job in the House--had come up with a way for House Republicans to save face. And if they didn't take it, Hollings threatened to push the "compromise" through the Senate anyway, and put House Republicans in the position of killing it. By the time the House passed...