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...back-door approach of relying on increased "user fees" and "sin taxes" (on liquor and cigarettes) so popular among his peers. Instead he became the only Governor of this read-my-lips era to embrace the discarded notion of a progressive tax, which hits New Jersey's wealthiest residents hardest by doubling the bite on their income...
...region's total harvest. The possible result: mill closings and cutbacks costing 30,000 jobs over the next decade. Real estate prices would tumble, and states and counties that depend on shares of the revenue from timber sales on federal land could see those funds plummet. Oregon would be hardest hit, losing hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue, wages and salaries, say state officials. By decade's end the plan could cost the U.S. Treasury $229 million in lost timber money each year...
Jarvis, who proposed E.W. while serving as a writer for PEOPLE, was succeeded by that magazine's executive editor, James W. Seymore Jr., 47. "Leaving the staff is the hardest part," said Jarvis, who has not decided on future plans. "ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY may have been my idea, but it's their magazine." E.W.'s stunned staff members anxiously sought out word of mouth about their new boss. In announcing Seymore's appointment, Time Warner editor- in-chief Jason McManus said, "Jim is an inventive, imaginative and skillful editor. By talent and temperament, coupled with his background and interest...
...last time he was rotated forward, he could plainly see two Burmese soldiers on the other side of the minefield reinforcing their bunkers with mud and wood. He lifted his carbine to shoot but was sharply ordered to hold his fire. He still seems incredulous about that; the hardest lesson for the children to accept is that ammunition has to be saved...
Engineering Sciences and Applied Physics--which is seen as a top department nationally--has been one of the hardest hit of the University's science departments, with the number of concentrators declining from...