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...Democratic budget, to be offered as an alternative to whatever Ronald Reagan proposes for fiscal 1987. It will contain some spending cuts, but also a higher corporate minimum tax and higher rates on upper-income individuals than are proposed in the current tax-reform bill. To reduce budget deficits, says Hart, "there will have to be additional revenue. Anybody who tells the truth in Washington will tell you that...
...black and Hispanic groups claiming that redistricting a year earlier was illegally rigged to minimize minority voting power. U.S. District Judge Charles R. Norgle Sr. ordered the boundaries for seven wards redrawn. Observers expect Vrdolyak's forces to retain at least two districts and Washington to pick up a minimum of three. That would leave the balance of power resting on the remaining two races, both in heavily Hispanic wards. Considering the stakes, it is a good bet that Chicago's two Democratic power brokers will spend the winter brushing up on their Spanish. WOMEN Winning a $482 Million Raise...
...might envision. In his first month in office, he froze prices of consumer goods and rents indefinitely and devalued the sol by 12%. The result: a decline in the annual inflation rate from 192% to 30%. He slapped import restrictions on food and luxury goods and raised the minimum wage by 50%, to about $40 a month, giving teachers a 22% hike and other government workers...
...that the public at large insures the insurance companies." Consumerists often point to the judgment of Wall Street, hardly a Naderite stronghold. Stock traders bid up the price of property-casualty insurance shares an average of about 50% last year, in the apparent belief that the industry at minimum is on its way back to solid profitability...
...other hand, Ernest Boyer, president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, argued that "there has to come a time when there are minimum standards, and language is the one criterion that matters most." The American Federation of Teachers, archrival union to the NEA, urged its 15,000 members in Texas to cooperate in the test. Said an AFT spokesman in Washington: "Texas is pumping 3 billion more dollars into education. We'll take a little test if that helps reassure people that teachers are qualified and competent...