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...chamber uses to pass legislation. He didn't even vote until he was 36 and has been in the Senate only since 1995. Frist wants to begin by quickly finishing the appropriations bills stalled last year and passing legislation to extend unemployment benefits for the nation's 8.5 million jobless, a measure that, because it benefits many minorities, could begin repairing the Lott damage. After that, Bush wants to push for more tax breaks for investors and middle-and upper-income earners and for the Medicare reforms Frist previously championed, which rely more on the market to provide benefits...
Lampe said there is no way to predict how many of HBS’ 900 graduates will apply but expects the internship to be popular among the jobless...
...also, Bush stressed, because "double taxation is wrong." (The application of morality to fiscal policy is a relatively recent entry into the field of economics, but Bush seems to have a pretty steady moral compass for this sort of thing.) There was some other stuff, too: help for the jobless through unemployment-benefits extensions and funding state "re-employment" accounts, and some small-business breaks those folks have been after for a while...
...students had been provoked to riot. That's possible. East Timor's diverse ex-guerrilla groups used to be united in the fight against Indonesia's military. But now they are falling out over who should run the country and how, not least because many former rebels are jobless and disenfranchised, and feel cheated by the new government. Recent weeks have seen a bomb threat on a Dili hotel, a mob attack on a police station in the eastern town of Baucau, and a brawl between army cadets and policemen. "There was a political group behind this incident," Alkatiri aide...
...many types of bonds will become riskier, if only because when rates inevitably head back up, the value of today's low-yielding bonds will fall. (It's that old formula: rates up, bonds down.) The parallels between today and 1993-94 may be instructive. Back then, a slow, jobless recovery and falling rates prompted many people to pile into long-term bonds--which typically yield more than short-term ones--and they got creamed when interest rates rose sharply...