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The remaining $143 million must be the focus of our community. We will not meet this goal by simply making further reductions in our existing programs. As we have often heard, the current reductions left no “fat” in our programs, and to continue to squeeze...
The GOP plan would make the health benefits that companies provide their workers count as taxable income, and then use that money to provide tax credits with which individuals could purchase their own health coverage. Economist Douglas Holtz-Eakin, who advised the McCain campaign, said the new plan goes further...
Conflict between vendors and city-management officers has existed for years, but the government has made little progress in reducing it. Now many observers fear that the economic crisis could make the tension even more acute. The central government fears that financial uncertainty could provoke greater social instability, fanning incidents...
In the end, Wei's killers were handed sentences ranging from three to six years in prison. Wei's widow, Zeng Jingfang, calls the verdicts an injustice. And she notes that even after her husband's death, little has changed. "Similar cases of chengguan violence continue to happen," she says...
"Although American papers are facing a direr situation at the moment, their managers have been so much more flexible and innovative in responding than France's rigid media," Texier says. "Besides, American dailies started with far bigger markets and much more money than French papers did, so their margin for...