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...supermajority of three-fifths of the House to approve almost any personal and corporate income tax hikes. (The idea, which goes to the House floor Jan. 4, makes it much harder to raise taxes than under the current 51 percent vote required.) The tax reform package, a key element of the party's 10-point "Contract with America," also bans retroactive tax increases and allows leeway only for revenue-raising hikes and others to offset any forthcoming capital gains cuts. The GOP also formally embraced a series of rule changes that will force staff cuts, limit committee chairmen to three...
...good response, breaking the embarrassing silence. And like most attempts at humor, it contained an element of truth. Harvard students do live in their own world--for better or for worse. It's a world where students wear blazers to class, "freshman" are "first-years" and the sports teams' visions of grandeur stop at the Pennsylvania border...
Even without the political element of her works, Gordimer is an exceptional writer, Kiely says. "She is as good at short stories as [she is at] novels. She has great consistency and range...
...NASA is funding a 150-million-dollar, 12-year study to understand the atmospheric effects of subsonic and supersonic aircraft," Wesoky adds. "Anderson's group is looking at only one element of six areas, but it is the most expensive and complex...
Stockman was a pro-gun, pro-school prayer sometime house painter and occasional accountant. The most effective element of his platform was simply not being 21-term Congressman Jack Brooks, who, if he had been re-elected, would have been the most senior member of the House. Being a Congressman will be Stockman's first steady job. Bill Frist, a heart-and-lung surgeon from Nashville, Tennessee, knocked off 18-year Senate veteran Jim Sasser by campaigning against the things Sasser was for: gun control, abortion rights and Washington pols telling people not to smoke in Old Smoky country...