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...taken a far deeper plunge. His plan, which calls for rates to decline the longer a stock is held, would cost about $5 billion a year, vs. $200 million for Clinton's proposal. For the money, Tsongas wants to encourage long-term investment in U.S. manufacturing while Clinton would funnel funds to start-up companies that could become hotbeds of jobs and new technologies...
...emerged as a restless, one- minute manager who cannot stay focused on a subject for long. Skinner's vaunted personnel reorganization has so far only added extra bodies to the already bloated operation left by his predecessor John Sununu. When Skinner released a plan two weeks ago to funnel all policy issues through a single West Wing committee, one top official cracked, "It's perfect. After three years, we finally get a policymaking body, but we have no policy to make...
Last week the general's lawyers began their response to the 10-count indictment charging him with taking millions in bribes to turn Panama into a way station for Colombian cocaine lords. The presentation was unexpectedly tame. Gone were the claims that Noriega, who helped the U.S. funnel illegal aid to the Nicaraguan contras, had been duped by CIA contract pilots using their empty planes to fly home cocaine. By last week any hint of that defense had been discarded, as had plans for calling as a witness Oliver North, the former White House aide at the center...
...there's a no-muss new method: using a $3 million combination of industrial-grade lasers, you can vaporize the skin right off the potatoes as they fly through a funnel at the rate of 1,800 a minute. This laser surgery for spuds, designed by researchers at Battelle Memorial Institute in Columbus, works even better on tomatoes, a key commodity for catsup-making Heinz, which owns the still experimental technology. Ore-Ida won't update its recipe for peeling potatoes until the price of lasers, already declining, drops even more. Any commercial use of laser peeling is at least...
...amount a candidate spends really depends on if the candidate is running a city-wide campaign or a campaign that focuses on certain wards," Walsh said. He explained that candidates like incumbents Edward N. Cyr and Reeves can funnel the bulk of their campaign funds into specific areas while he and candidates like Councillor Walter J. Sullivan, run a broader-based city campaign...