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...government than a higher-wage single-earner family with the same family income." Apps documents the squeeze on Middle Australia-paying for the increased benefits of those at the bottom and the tax cuts of those at the top. According to Apps family taxation now closely approximates so-called "joint taxation," a long-held policy ideal...
...writer, a newsman at The Australian, argues that antagonists Keating (below) and Howard, the dominant politicians of their generation, are the joint fathers of today's affluence-and partners in the disruptive reforms that have transformed Australia over the past two decades. Some commentators in these matters rely on spleen, others on lofty remoteness. Megalogenis is a data fiend and a diviner of patterns and types. Few know their way around a statistical time series like he does; no one can match his ingenuity in figuring out what to do with it. When Megalogenis describes the rise of the McMansion...
...Dine Originals president Don Luria. But hard knocks have turned indie rivals into sympathetic allies. Skyrocketing food, energy and health-care costs have cut into independents' bottom line, while national chains, from Applebee's to Morton's, have been expanding at every price level at the expense of the joint on the corner. According to the NPD Group, traffic share for major and small chains has grown to 69% of overall restaurant visits this year, having gained 1 percentage point a year for the past five years. Meanwhile, independents' share has steadily dropped over the same period...
...Joint marketing has long been the cornerstone of local chapters, which use the Dine Originals banner to remind customers that money spent at local restaurants stays in the community, supports local farms and promotes the region's unique culinary taste. Now Dine Originals members are getting more creative with their marketing. Michael Klauber, owner of Michael's On East in Sarasota, Fla., and president of the largest Dine Originals chapter, struck a deal with local suppliers to get a small discount on purchases to be used for joint marketing. "I told them the more they help us fill seats...
...been a producer of it," the official said. Hayden, who entered active duty in 1969 and is the highest-ranking military intelligence officer in the armed forces, has been Director of the National Security Agency, Commander of the Air Intelligence Agency and Director of the Joint Command and Control Warfare Center. Hayden has bachelor's and master's degrees from Duquesne University. His first assignment was in January 1970 as an analyst and briefer at the headquarters of the Strategic Air Command at Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska. That was a classic Cold War post, and he now will...