Word: intact
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...alternative proposal, 80-19. The Majority Leader promised that the Senate would produce the same radical change as the House bill. "Dole appears to have his troops in line," reports TIME's Karen Tumulty. "He's made a number of concessions to wavering moderates, but the bill is largely intact, and it is remarkable the discipline Dole and Gingrich have maintained to advance these budget bills. It's something the Democrats never achieved." The Senate package revamps Medicare, Medicaid and various other programs, slowing federal spending by $1 trillion over seven years while providing some $245 billion in tax relief...
...subject as inadequate, rushed and stacked, Democrats walked out of a House Commerce Committee session devoted to the G.O.P.'s proposal, which seeks to channel more seniors into private insurance and HMO plans. Senate Democrats unveiled an alternate plan that they said would keep the current system intact and save $89 billion, a third of the sum advocated by Republicans...
Farrakhan's Million Man March on Monday is being billed as a Day of Attonement for African-American men. It is an opportunity, or so the organizers tell us, for African-American men to confront their historic abdication of responsibility in keeping their communities strong and intact...
...Like Bonfante, he found fresh reasons for optimism about the state of American Catholicism. "I continue to be amazed at the resiliency of this, the largest spiritual community in the world," says Ostling. "What other institution could have survived such turbulence over a generation and survived with loyalties largely intact? Our polling shows the usual wide disagreement with church teachings on hot-button issues, but the news here is the unshakable lay devotion at parish level." Ostling saw that devotion close up, interviewing would-be priests in Missouri and parishioners in Maryland, and even chatting with Father Greeley in Michigan...
...tactics and more high-publicity counterhearings on the lawn of the Capitol, the Senate Finance Committee approved the basic G.O.P. blueprint for overhauling Medicare and Medicaid. House Democrats unveiled a much less sweeping $90 billion cut in Medicare (the G.O.P. proposes $270 billion) that would essentially keep the system intact but reduce payments to hospitals and doctors. Meanwhile, a Congressional Budget Office analysis showed that the privatization option in the G.O.P.'s plans may not save as much as anticipated...