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...nationally-televised speech at the midpoint of his presidency, President Clinton tonight set out to woo disenchanted swing voters with a hastily-assembled, $60 billion package of tax cuts and deductions aimed primarily at middle-income families with young children and education bills to pay. Clinton proposed a four-point "Middle Class Bill of Rights" for "hurt, frustrated" people strained by wages that haven't kept up with economic expansion. Under the plans first proposal, families earning up to $100,000 a year could deduct up to $10,000 a year in college and post-graduate tuition from their taxes...
Chosen students must have a grade point average of 3.7 or above on a four-point scale...
...grudging. A TIME/CNN poll last week revealed that 53% of Americans said the Clinton Administration deserved credit for "recent improvements in the economy." But the President's overall popularity remained low: 44% of Americans said they approved of Clinton's handling of his job, while 47% disapproved, just a four-point improvement from six weeks...
...letter noted that the average grade at Dartmouth has risen from 3.06 in 1976-77 to 3.23 in 1992-93. Dartmouth uses the four-point garding scale favored by most American colleges...
First, a frighteningly tight five-point win over lightly-regarded Babson. Then a five-point overtime loss to heavily-favored Colgate. And finally, on Tuesday, a gut-wrenching four-point loss to Holy Cross as Harvard watched its 21-point second-half lead evaporate in the last 12 minutes...