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...nationally-televised speech at the midpoint of his presidency, President Clinton tonight set out to woo disenchanted swing voters with a hastily-assembled, $60 billion package of tax cuts and deductions aimed primarily at middle-income families with young children and education bills to pay. Clinton proposed a four-point "Middle Class Bill of Rights" for "hurt, frustrated" people strained by wages that haven't kept up with economic expansion. Under the plans first proposal, families earning up to $100,000 a year could deduct up to $10,000 a year in college and post-graduate tuition from their taxes...
Blues Before Sunrise begins the album and sets the tone. It's a wary, weary kind of blues, and Clapton puts it over like a man groggy from an overdose of bad luck. By the time he reaches the album's midpoint, James Lane's Blues Leave Me Alone, Clapton has navigated the shoals of despair and is heading for very deep waters. There was a time when he practically lived at those longitudes,but like some explorer using charts from his first voyage, Clapton now tacks with more assurance. He knows the winds, and he's been through...
Folk and Myth also offers a "midpoint" betweenthe social sciences and humanities, Mitchell says.Students can focus more on anthropology or onliterature, or anything in between...
...noticeably and look about as depressed as it is possible for these benign creatures to look. Herman notes that they are not above resorting to tricks familiar to every student, such as rushing over to another object after choosing the wrong one, or positioning themselves at some ambiguous midpoint between two choices with the apparent hope that the trainer will say "Right!" On occasion, when wrong, they will take their chagrin out on the object and beat a hoop or basket as though it were at fault...
...loss marked the midpoint of the season for Harvard. Despite an overall even record, the Crimson (4-4-0 overall, 2-1-0 Ivy) is excited about its prospects for the rest of the season...