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During the past three weeks, the council has debated four different versions of the proposed ordinance. The original agreement called for the city to enact a temporary limit of 500 new spaces until the state and city work out a permanent plan to put Cambridge in compliance with the federal Clean...
...Enact a rifle-shot capital-gains break -- a zero tax bracket that would apply only to gains on the purchase of newly issued shares (including founders' stock in new ventures). It would cost little or nothing, as it would apply only to the first owner of the shares (not all those who subsequently traded them), yet it would encourage investment, new enterprise and expansion...
...ideas. In his State of the Union address, Gorbachev merely defended the watered-down reform package that was passed in October and has since been not only derided but largely ignored. He implored the republics to stop reversing his economic decrees; in fact, he added, the Supreme Soviet should enact a moratorium on all independence-oriented legislation. But the idea that any such ban would be obeyed is so farfetched as to call into question whether Gorbachev understands how far the republics have broken away from the Kremlin...
...henchmen. Harris and Lewis were pals and musical rivals of Prince's back in junior high school, and have gone on to some substantial success of their own by producing the last two top-selling Janet Jackson albums. But in Graffiti Bridge they are called on to re-enact the old adolescent competition. Prince bests them, natch. As a colleague explains, "Prince wrote the script, pulled in the money, directed and used his own studios. How could we expect a different ending...
...Congress were being asked to endorse the unpalatable idea that voters should pay more taxes while receiving less in the way of public services. Faced with that painful -- albeit necessary -- proposition, the lawmakers simply cut and ran, ignoring Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan's admonition that "failure to enact the agreement would produce an adverse reaction in financial markets that could undercut our economy...