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...does the government help retail? It would have to be through offering people tax credits or tax cuts for shopping. The idea is not so strange, New York City used to have "tax free" retail days to get people to come in from the suburbs. Military and retired military men and women can shop tax-free on US bases...
...Davis personified the idea that the point guard sets the tone for the rest of his team, in every way. Apparently more concerned with accumulating highlights for his And1 Tour audition than with the game itself, Davis followed a simple formula over and over again: receive inbounds pass, bust out several unnecessary crossovers and spin moves, find enough space to force a bad shot, release...
...full chamber without a committee vote. One of them would be to persuade lawmakers on the committee who oppose the bill to release it anyway without a recommendation of any kind from their body. Some anti-repeal committee members are already said to be warming to that idea...
...debt - and so they want to make President Bush's debt-exploding tax cuts permanent. They say Democratic spending plans are full of pork - then they propose an extra $24 billion for the Army Corps of Engineers, the federal equivalent of Oscar Meyer. Let's just say their idea bank could use a bailout...
...former members of Congress, like Daschle, from participating in the non-lobbying coordination of lobbying efforts for a preset "cooling-off period" of two years. The chief sponsor of that effort happened to be Senator Obama. "Obama was the one who really became excited about the whole idea," says Craig Holman, a lobbyist for Public Citizen, a group that helped write the bill. "We lost that on the House side, initially. It was largely the committee chairmen who didn't want that in there...