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...Georgia the proceeds from arbitrage have amounted to as much as $40 million a year. Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young points out that the city has been able to lower the cost of renovating its zoo by some $3 million by using the now banned technique. On a nationwide basis, the numbers mushroom: the total value of outstanding bonds issued by approximately 40,000 state and local jurisdictions is at least $729 billion...
...time he left office, Delaware's unemployment rate had dropped to 7% from a high of 13%, the top income tax rate had fallen from nearly 20% to 9%, and new businesses flooded the state. The experience converted du Pont to the supplyside philosophy of lower taxes and a strong free-market approach to the economy...
...franchiser and franchisee form a symbiotic relationship that enriches them both. The franchiser can expand a new company without having to borrow huge amounts of capital. Franchisees pay an up-front fee, which usually covers certain training and furnishings, to become part of a chain. The cost is typically lower for companies that do not require much equipment or for chains that are just starting up. The fee can be as little as $9,750 for the business cards and other materials needed to open a Coustic-Glo franchise, which specializes in cleaning ceilings, or as much...
...Eindhoven, the Dutch, who have always loved a rousing moralistic argument, are indulging in just that heady passion. The debate, which focuses on the proper balance between freedom and license, is echoed in all the industrialized democracies. In fact, the rates of divorce, juvenile crime and unwed motherhood remain lower in the Netherlands than in most other European countries and the U.S. "Let us remember that we have an open society, a nice, friendly, clean country," says Cees van Lede, president of the Federation of Netherlands Industry. Nonetheless, the discussion has taken on a special urgency in the Netherlands, which...
...only his foreign policy views but also a conservative domestic voting record that includes support for Reaganomics, the nomination of William Rehnquist as Chief Justice and a constitutional amendment that would overturn the Supreme Court abortion decision. Nunn flunks almost every liberal Democratic litmus test. In 1986 he scored lower than 15 Republican and 43 Democratic Senators on the Americans for Democratic Action scorecard...