Word: fla
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...assistant for the local sheriff, and her husband William, an engineer at Kenworth, would stand to save about $800 from Bush's tax cut. "I trust Bush when he says it's meant for working families," says Jo Ann. The couple has put off a trip to Cocoa Beach, Fla.--their first vacation without the kids--because of economic worries. If the tax cut comes through, Jo Ann says, "we might be able to take that trip"--as long as William keeps his job. Two weeks ago, Kenworth announced 135 more layoffs...
...inimitable way, doling out about $200 million to various charities. He also made overtures toward settling with the government for as much as $100 million. But "it was never about the money," says Morris ("Sandy") Weinberg, the original lead prosecutor alongside Giuliani, who now practices law in Tampa, Fla. "If the biggest tax evaders in the U.S. never did jail time, we could never prosecute another tax case...
...like wearing shorts and skirts that show my stomach," says Tonya Rodriguez, an eighth-grader at Seven Springs Middle School in New Port Richey, Fla. "I have a really flat stomach, and I like it." Her principal, Roni Sushko, isn't quite so charmed. She has cited Tonya, 13, for dress-code violations eight times since the beginning of the school year, suspending her on two of those occasions. Tonya's infractions include wearing miniskirts and spaghetti-strap tops, which run afoul of regulations that the school's county instituted last year. The new code specifies that all skirts...
...bitter confirmation hearing in which opponents cast him as a racist character assassin; he greeted Colin Powell, who had sailed through his own hearing, and as singer Kim Weston began the black national anthem, Lift Every Voice and Sing, the men were joined by Katherine Harris, late of Tallahassee, Fla. "Stony the road we trod,/Bitter the chastening rod,/Felt in the days when hope unborn had died," goes the anthem. "Yet with a steady beat,/Have not our weary feet,/Come to the place for which our fathers sighed...
...inimitable way, doling out about $200 million to various charities. He also made overtures toward settling with the government for as much as $100 million. But "it was never about the money," says Morris ("Sandy") Weinberg, the original lead prosecutor alongside Giuliani, who now practices law in Tampa, Fla. "If the biggest tax evaders in the U.S. never did jail time, we could never prosecute another tax case...