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...study is sure to become a tool in the hands of politicians wrangling over plans to reform the federal tax system. "If anyone had any doubt about the unfairness of our present tax code," said Democratic Congressman J.J. Pickle of Texas, "these figures should convince them." Pickle, who requested the report, is advocating a minimum-tax provision on personal income. The study, said a White House spokesman, "shows that fat cats pay little or no money. It's a perfect example of why the President wants tax reform." But tax-reform experts point out that many of the major loopholes...
...Navy; the all-service JVX vertical takeoff aircraft, which has rotors that tilt; and the C-17 cargo transport plane, which could become one of the most expensive aircraft programs in history, now slated at $40 billion. To the legislators, the $1.3 billion in start-up money no doubt looked piddling. The cost of completing the five systems over the next decade: an estimated $180 billion. --By Ed Magnuson. Reported by Bruce van Voorst/Washington
Something is obviously shifting within Kennedy. No doubt it has to do with whatever presidential ambitions he has. But fairness suggests his view is inspired in part by Reagan's personal grace, the lack of which in national debate has dismayed Kennedy. In part, too, Kennedy's view stems from 23 years in the Senate, which have nurtured an awareness that there is more to politics than the struggles for Government pork and headlines on the nightly news. He says that J.F.K. and Reagan both set agendas, participated in the daily struggles but "succeeded in reaching above that to establish...
Scientists so far have not located any new invaders, and a panel of experts suggested that the killer bees' aggressively unfriendly personalities will be blunted as they mate with more docile domestic bees. There is no doubt that the Africanized bees, known as Apis mellifera scutellata, have exceptionally nasty tempers. While they are slightly smaller and no more venomous than their European cousins, they go out of their way to attack, and they do so in overwhelming swarms. Ever since a batch of imported Africanized bees was accidentally released near São Paulo by a Brazilian scientist in 1957, they...
...Maybe we're not supposed to sleep so well," says a character in Doubt. To be sure, this off-Broadway hit that has just moved to Broadway (nabbing a Pulitzer Prize along the way) never lets us rest comfortably with our preconceptions. An imperious nun (Cherry Jones) hears suspicions that a popular priest (Brían F. O'Byrne) at her school has been abusing a young boy; in spite of his fierce denials, she hounds him to step down. A triumph of moral doggedness or a shameful injustice? In a tight 90 mins., Shanley's work packs more complexity, humanity...