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WASHINGTON, D.C.: President Clinton sent Congress a $1.69 trillion 1998 budget package Thursday containing much that even Republicans will find to their liking. The White House maintains that it is setting a course that will produce not only a balanced budget, but a modest surplus by the year 2002. Taking its cue from years of GOP initiatives, the budget promises $98.4 billion in middle-class tax cuts, mostly in the form of tax credits. Republicans and professional number-crunchers, though, reacted cautiously to Clinton's package, pointing out that it rests on rosy assumptions. What's more, most...
...lives in Phoenix, Arizona, sheltered by a close-knit clan: his wife Mary Elaine, six children and 29 grandchildren. House hopping between his children's homes like a visiting relative, Keating recently left the villa belonging to one daughter and son-in-law and moved into the more modest home of another of his children in a working-class Phoenix suburb, a Gulliver at rest in a granddaughter's cramped bedroom...
...Corporation in 1994, which identified a "quiet crisis" in the lives of the youngest children. Hillary Clinton has begun to speak out on the importance of a child's earliest years, and several Governors have forcefully taken up the issue. The size of the programs in place is quite modest. But to their advocates they hold out promise not only of helping children fulfill their potential but also of saving society the costs ncurred when intellectually and socially impaired children grow up to be intellectually and socially impaired adults...
...poetry is not much read today. Perhaps almost no one's is. Dickey was a celebrity once, in the 1960s, when poets (e.g., Robert Lowell, Allen Ginsberg) could still command a modest fame. In 1966 Dickey won the National Book Award for Buckdancer's Choice. Readers made a connection between Vietnam and his poem The Firebombing, which recorded an ex-pilot's agony as, 20 years after World War II, he meditated on the holocaust he had dropped upon Japan: "...when those on earth/ Die there is not even sound; one is cool and enthralled in the cockpit/ Turned blue...
...miscellaneous home furnishings; and whatever money he may have in bank accounts. The plaintiffs can attach up to 25% of his nonretirement income too, though he earns virtually nothing now, since most of his traditional sources have dried up. Even if the Goldmans and Browns succeed in gathering these modest amounts, it may seem cold comfort from a man they are convinced killed their children...