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...vagueness of the Clinton proposal has allowed the G.O.P. to lump it together with various congressional plans that lack, according to Clinton aides, the kind of cost controls that Clinton himself would insist upon. But the Congressional Budget Office estimates that the Clinton health-care plan, such as it is, would require about $80 billion in new taxes. Clinton aides insist that there will be no payroll tax in their health proposal, which would be funded instead by direct government subsidies to cover those who are too poor to afford private health insurance. But they admit that despite their candidate...
Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (1591-1666) was known from childhood and, since his death, to art history as Guercino -- "the Squinter." Thus he joins Masaccio ("Tom the Lump") and Sodoma among the notable Italian painters who survive in pejorative nicknames. One flinches to think what this practice might have done to the self-esteem of artists in the late 20th century had it gone...
...year on limousines. A spin-off organization bought an apartment for Aramony's use and hired his son. Exposure of these abuses led to Aramony's sudden retirement. The head of the New York-area United Way division (pay: $341,000) also recently retired -- on a lump-sum pension of $3.3 million...
...fact, many servicemen and -women do have a choice: between volunteering to leave in exchange for a "copper handshake" severance package and waiting to be sacked and getting less attractive benefits. A staff sergeant with 10 years service, for instance, can choose to leave with a $28,100 lump-sum payment or a $4,700 annual annuity over 20 years. But if the same sergeant does not volunteer, he or she can be separated with one-third less pay. "It's a terrible decision to have to make," says Staff Sergeant Stephen Underwood, a gulf-war veteran who has decided...
...addition to pantries, there are 35 programs in total under the umbrella of the $43,000 lump sum the city has doled out. So if the money is divided evenly among the programs, the food pantry network may only reap $1000 from the allotment, according to Bergman...