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Aides to George Bush stunned Democrats and some Republicans last week by indicating that the President, in his annual budget request, would renew his long-standing campaign for lower capital-gains taxes. The strategy seemed a halfhearted attempt to appease conservatives who remain furious with Bush for agreeing to tax increases last year. Scoffed a Democratic aide to a congressional committee: "Maybe they'll ask for a capital-gains cut to pay for the gulf...
...made her intentions clear from the start, opening with fast serves and furious cross-courts. After winning her first game 15-8 over Nilou Panahpour, the unsatisfied Desai upgraded her determination, turned the tin into a goldmine, and tallied 15-3, 15-5 victories...
...awash in petroleum. The storage tanks of industrial countries are brimming with 3.5 billion bbl. of crude, a 96-day cache that is the largest in nearly a decade. The supply has built up because of slumping demand in the U.S. and other countries mired in recession, along with furious pumping by energy-rich nations to make up for the boycott of oil from Iraq and Kuwait. % Even without the two countries' combined daily output of 4.3 million bbl., the rest of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries managed to produce at the rate of nearly 23.9 million...
...since the Great Depression has the outlook for so many banks seemed so grim. The epicenter of distress is the downtrodden Northeast, where lenders in New York and New England are writing off bad loans at a furious pace. Many of the worst headaches are in New York City, which is home to seven of the 10 largest U.S. banks. Experts predict that such giants as Citicorp, the biggest U.S. banking company, Chase Manhattan (No. 3) or Chemical (No. 8) may have to merge with other large firms to survive. "There is a high chance for a major consolidation over...
...basketball coach had to watch his Trojans nip Harvard by only 27 points on December 28. For USC (only 7-1 at the time, only 8-1 after crushing Brooklyn College the next night), the victory was only its sixth in a row. And Raveling was furious...