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...temporary moratorium has been declared on all programs wishing to join Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA), Harvard's largest volunteer organization...
...build it? PrimeCo--which plunked down more than a billion dollars to license airwaves in 11 metropolitan areas--is in a hurry to start selling its services. And it is barred from more logical sites in Wheaton, Illinois, just next door, by a recently imposed six-month moratorium on antenna permits. So it zoomed in on our unincorporated neighborhood as a convenient, and vulnerable, target...
Cooksey wants the government out of everyone's hair--and pocketbook. The eye doctor, who has raised money for a clinic in Kenya and occasionally performs eye surgery there, would lower taxes, eliminate the departments of Energy and Education and declare a moratorium on new federal regulations. In this newly created district, made up largely of conservatives, that should give him an edge, which he would need against the more politically savvy Francis Thompson...
...unconventional candidate--he offered to pose for Playgirl if Howard Stern would help him raise $1 million for his campaign--would take on a Democratic incumbent in a district where the G.O.P. is outnumbered nearly 6 to 1. Kimble, an author of books on wolves, proposes a 10-year moratorium on immigration and a plan to exclude the first $10,000 of workers' salaries from taxation...
Choby, in his third run, is challenging John Murtha's big-money projects as "pork barrel" and "government handouts" that have not given needed invigoration to the local economy. His solutions include a moratorium on income taxes for the poor, repeal of capital-gains taxes for the middle class, and no tax deductions for health care...