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...stresses Dole's opposition in 1989 to an increase in the minimum wage. In a state chock-full of seniors who didn't make it to Florida, he is scoring points with Social Security, which Dole, like Bush, would privatize, after a fashion. She now proposes that a modest 2% gointo private investments, but some worry even that amount could cripple the system...
...Oscar for his moving portrayal of a gay lawyer dying of AIDS in the hit film Philadelphia. It helped bring the deadly disease out of the closet, and removed some of the stigma attached to actors playing AIDS victims. Now, a new AIDS drama has premiered. It's modest, not destined for the big screen, and is produced by Bollywood, not Hollywood. But among its target audience of South Asians in Britain, it's breaking social taboos...
...agreement would cut barely €3 billion of Germany's nearly €150 billion in state subsidies while extending taxes on energy, consumer goods, corporations and capital gains. True, cutting benefits during tough times is a gloomy task, and the coalition did pledge to embrace the Hartz Commission's modest reforms, but the government seems powerless to cut unemployment. "That's only going to happen by cutting labor costs and making it easier to hire and fire," says Solveen, "but with this plan nothing will happen in the next four years." The question is when Germans will do their...
...double its almost 1 million daily output; and Gabon, which is encouraging more deepwater exploration to prop up declining production. All the action makes the waters off West Africa one of the hottest places for oil exploration in the world. On a global scale, the numbers may seem modest; total proven reserves in the Gulf of Guinea sit at 40 billion barrels, less than one-sixth of Saudi Arabia's 261 billion. But Africa is just getting started. Says Al Stanton, an Edinburgh-based oil analyst with Deutsche Bank: "The opportunities for expansion are tremendous." Driving the oil rush...
...children eagerly led us the rest of the way. After crossing a narrow footbridge, our family’s former hut emerged from a dense thicket of lychee trees. It was a modest brown and green construction that Ông Ngoai had built himself. He weaved chutes of bamboo together for the walls; he bound thatch together for the roof. The floor was smoothed dirt covered by scratchy mats and the bed was flattened bamboo draped with scraps of cloth. A black and white picture of him sat on the altar to the left of his bed, his image...