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...carbon sink" proposal looks set to send any chance of implementing Kyoto down the drain. Instead, it will live on in that guilty limbo where we all store those New Year's resolutions we know we're never going to keep. The Clinton administration may have signed the treaty, but it did so safe in the knowledge that it wouldn't have a prayer in the Senate. After all, Al Gore wasn't about to become the candidate urging Americans to trade in their SUVs for battery-powered cars, and if the Europeans weren't going to accept America...
Another tax-related proposal, Question Six, would allow state residents and businesses to claim a tax credit for tolls they pay on state roads, bridges and tunnels and motor vehicle taxes. If passed, it will drain between $400 and $650 million per year from state coffers...
...missionary hospital in Yambuku, Zaire in 1976, is a member of a thankfully tiny club of hemorrhagic fever agents. It specifically targets the endothelial tissue that comprises the linings of blood vessels, arteries and capillaries, eating away microscopic holes in the body's vital conduits. From these holes drain first water molecules and later, as the leaks expand, red blood cells. Hemorrhaging may occur anywhere in the body, and patients can become terrifying to view as blood pours from their noses, mouths, eyes and all other orifices...
...loans has been a major problem for HOP in the past. Over the past several years repayment rates have sunk to less than 50 percent. Because the program operates as a revolving loan fund--relying on incoming payments to fund new loans--the loss of payments creates a severe drain on the group's capital...
...Governor Bush is for vouchers and in his plan he proposes to drain more money, more taxpayer money out of the public schools for private school vouchers," said Gore. "I think that's a mistake...