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...even esteemed economists are not exempt from that most common of winning feelings: complete disbelief...
...tension between SDS veterans and newermembers was increasing. The students' protests hadplaced the league's tax-exempt status at risk...
...Deny visas to everyone and ban all but emergency aviation to and from Haiti. The latest sanctions again exempt commercial flights. Thus the army's wealthy supporting cast can leave at will to do business abroad -- and some of that business is conducted for the benefit of the guys with the guns. Those who have helped create the horror should be forced to remain in its vicinity...
...product of a different era. America's health-care system, in which workers get health insurance mainly through employers, began to evolve during World War II, when labor was scarce and wages were controlled. Employers started to compete for workers by offering health insurance, which Washington deemed exempt from taxes. That didn't matter much when the average family paid about $60 a year in federal taxes, but as taxes rose during the 1970s and '80s, workers and employers faced a strong incentive to substitute tax-free health benefits for taxable wages. This pushed up the price of health care...
...going on in Haiti," said Madeleine Albright, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. The proposed sanctions would stop most trade and all travel to Haiti with the exception of regularly scheduled flights. In view of rising malnournishment and disease on the island, however, food and medicine shipments would be exempt. In addition, some 600 Haitian soldiers, policemen and their families would be barred from going abroad and their assets would be frozen worldwide...