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Seems like a simple formula for a good life. But it hasn't always been easy for Wernher...
...immediately approved a supplemental plan, estimated to cost an additional $400 million, to make benefits even better for workers in some states. The second bill, which Senate leaders believe will be enacted this week, is designed to satisfy Senators who feel their states were shortchanged in the other formula...
...David Duke, we have seen the face of American decline. Of course you can argue about whether the United States has entered a long-term decline similar to Britain's. And even if it has, you can argue whether politicians of one party or the other have the right formula for reversing course. But if decline is America's destiny, American society is not likely to take it as mildly as Britain...
Disguised race baiting persists in politics for a simple reason: it works. "Some of us would like to get beyond this business of scaring people and dividing them against blacks," says one of George Bush's closest political advisers, "but it's hard to argue against a formula that's seen as successful." The tactic has succeeded best in states and districts where the minority population is large enough that whites can be made to feel threatened by it. When George Brown ran for re-election as Tennessee's first black supreme court justice in 1980, he says...
...stuck at an average 18.8%. Banks say they need that interest to offset the cost of rising delinquencies. But President ) Bush last week urged bankers to reduce their rates. Not to be outdone, the Senate voted 74 to 19 to put a cap on credit-card rates under a formula that would lower the current level to 14%. That move may have helped trigger Friday's stock-market plunge by threatening to cut the profits of America's already ailing banks...