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...fail-safe" mechanism designed to ensure that the plan would not add to the federal deficit. House Education and Labor proposes regional limits on how fast insurance premiums can rise. House Ways and Means establishes a fee structure and offers a standby cost-containment section triggered when individual states exceed a targeted expenditure level, at which point a federal rate schedule is imposed. Senate Finance would call on its National Health Commission to make nonbinding recommendations if costs got out of hand...
...plagues could not have come at a worse time for the California wine trade, whose annual sales exceed $3.6 billion. The Treasury Department's Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, which regulates the wineries, appears to be following a neo-prohibitionist agenda. The bureau requires wine labels to carry warnings about drunken driving and the danger of alcohol to pregnant women. At the same time, the bureau refuses to allow vintners to promote or advertise research indicating that drinking wine in moderation has some health benefits...
...unvarnished and quantifiable look at the problem. "The rates of marital aggression are considerably higher than anticipated," declared the researchers, who have questioned more than 55,000 soldiers at 47 bases since 1989, and continue to do so. The growing number of victims seeking help "is soon likely to exceed treatment resources." And the problem isn't restricted to low-level or poorly performing soldiers. "Often those in the most responsible and stressful positions," the report says referring to noncommissioned officers, "appear to be more likely to be involved in abusive episodes." The violence ranges from kicking, biting and punching...
Many loans had negative amortizations, causingmonthly interest rates to exceed caps on monthlypayments, she said. The balances of the loansactually went up even when borrowers made monthlypayments, she added...
...Knowles acknowledged that the salaries of FAS professors meet or exceed those of their counterparts at other IvyLeague schools...