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...instead of cutting farm spending--which accounted for less than nutrition spending--Peterson persuaded Pelosi to pry money out of the Ways and Means Committee by closing a loophole that helps foreign firms duck U.S. tax liabilities. Republicans denounced this back-door tax hike to no avail. "They had every right to scream foul," Kind says. "There was no vetting in Ways and Means, no hearings, no markup. My party just grabbed $10 billion to buy off the opposition." Democratic leaders then squelched an amendment that would have forced an up-or-down vote on eliminating subsidies for farmers earning...
...effort to ease the pressure, China's economic planner, the National Development and Reform Commission, on Wednesday announced an almost 10% increase in domestic gasoline and diesel prices, calling the move an "urgent step" needed to tamp down demand and encourage refiners to ramp up production. The price hike is likely to alleviate the shortages - that is, until the next increase in global crude prices, says Gordon Kwan, a Hong Kong-based oil and gas analyst for CLSA Ltd. "When retail prices [in China] are nearly a third lower than in the rest of the world, why would producers want...
...Public discomfort over Sarkozy's raise may be accentuated by its timing. In just three weeks, the nation is set to undergo strikes potentially more paralyzing than those in October protesting cutbacks in certain public sector pension regimes. Union leaders have jumped on Sarkozy's pay hike to highlight what they call the President's reformist hypocrisy: clarifying and normalizing governmental pay scales by lifting them, while harmonizing public and private sector pension plans by scaling those downward. "There's a feeling the political class is helping itself while the French people are left on the sidewalk to fend...
Just a few hours before the freak accident that claimed her life, recently married Harvard graduate student Stine Rossel chatted with her husband about having children and stopped occasionally on the New Hampshire hiking trail to playfully throw leaves at her husband.“We were just so happy that day,” her husband, Brian M. Wood, also a student at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, recalled in an interview yesterday. “She was just enjoying the nature and everything was so beautiful.”The afternoon hike turned unimaginably tragic...
...don’t wish such a natural disaster on anyone, nor a costly insurance premium hike. But I’m beginning to think that that’s what it will take for Americans to internalize in their hearts, minds, and wallets—where it really counts—that global warming is a real process, driving freakish, real events. I dare say, that would make them demand change and act to bring it about...