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...offenders. The mechanism is known as the "100-to-1 drug ratio," which gives crack cocaine 100 times the weight of powder cocaine. Under the ratio, a person convicted of selling five grams of crack - about the weight of a teaspoon of salt - triggers the same five-year mandatory minimum sentence as a person convicted of selling 500 grams of powder cocaine, roughly the weight of a loaf of bread. (Read "U.N. World Drug Report...
...free, and you have to have groups with many more healthy people than sick." As a result, insurers are pushing for harsher financial penalties on Americans who would forgo insurance even in the face of a government mandate. The HELP Committee bill would charge the uninsured a minimum annual penalty of $750 for individuals, a figure that is far below the annual expenses of full-cost premiums, which insurers think the penalty should at least equal in order to succeed. The House draft includes a penalty of 2.5% of modified adjusted gross income. (Both plans include financial hardship exemptions...
...program has already burned through its first round of funding. But green groups were a bit wary of cash for clunkers at the outset, concerned that the legislation's requirements on fuel economy were too lax. Under the program, newly purchased passenger cars must have a minimum fuel-economy rating of 22 miles per gallon - hardly superefficient - and they need to be only 4 m.p.g. more efficient than the clunker being traded in to trigger the $3,500 credit. (The $4,500 credit requires an improvement in fuel economy of at least 10 m.p.g.) And there's the undeniable fact...
...guzzlers for new, fuel-efficient vehicles," said Mark LaNeve, GM vice president for sales. The Department of Transportation confirmed the fuel-efficiency gains on Monday, Aug. 3, noting that of the 120,000 rebate applications processed so far, the cars purchased have been far more fuel-efficient than the minimum requirements to qualify for the highest rebates. But GM's July news wasn't all good: though sales were up month to month, they are still down 18% from July of last year. (Watch a video about an optimistic Dodge dealer...
...also realized that the concessions are astronomical at McAfee. They have a full array of draft beers, including local favorites like Gordon Biersch and Pyramid. But the minimum for a bottle is $7.25 and $8.00 for a draft...