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Back from summer vacation, Congress rolled up its sleeves to begin tackling the nation's toughest issue: the budget. Though generally trumpeting their frugality, both the Senate and the House passed defense-spending bills that exceed the President's request by more than $6 billion each. Numerous differences remain to be resolved between the Senate's $243 billion defense measure and the House's $244 billion version. Among them: a Senate decision to stop funding more B-2 bombers...
...people, subtly or otherwise, away from fee-for-service and into managed care (or gets them to pay for the difference out of their own pockets). Leaked reports about the Republican plan for Medicare say that it might impose caps on Medicare's annual cost, and that if costs exceed the caps, the difference would be taken out of the government's payments for fee-for-service insurance only. That is one way to drive people into managed care...
...alike, upscale Sables produced by the company's Lincoln-Mercury division--are on the road. And the largely unchanged Taurus has been the best-selling car in the country for three years running. Together, Taurus and Sable account for one-third of Ford's U.S. auto production and also exceed U.S. sales of all European brands combined, as well as outselling all U.S. Nissan models...
...PUBLICITY surrounding the so-called fat substance [SCIENCE, Aug. 7], an obesity-reducing hormone, fooled your readers into abandoning a prudent diet. Obesity is a life-threatening condition that has become prevalent in our country. Recently the National Center for Health Statistics reported that 34% of Americans exceed their ideal body weight by more than 20%. A quick-fix cure for obesity is a nice thought, but prevention of this problem is much wiser. ALEX HERSHAFT Bethesda, Maryland
...Last year was the first year that I can ever remember that the Coop had a loss," says Dickson, who has been on the Board of Directors since the early 1980s. "You can't operate a business at a loss, particularly when you return most of the [money] that exceed[s] your expenses in a year to the members of the Coop...