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...President's budget plan cleared another hurdle when Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee struck a deal on new tax increases and spending cuts. They eliminated Clinton's $72 billion tax on all forms of energy, substituting a 4.3 cents-per-gal. motor-fuels tax that will raise just $24 billion over the next five years and tacked on a 2.8% increase in the capital-gains tax for the affluent. With the First Lady's very discreet acquiescence, the Senators also cut an extra $19 billion from Medicare beyond the $49 billion already sought by Clinton. Now the bill moves...
...left field -- columnists for the Nation, for instance, or resident thinkers at Washington's Institute for Policy Studies -- and they'll tell you there hasn't been any lurching in their direction. A few tentative little steps perhaps -- abolition of the "gag rule" on abortions, the signing of the "motor voter" and family-leave bills, some vague reformist intentions here and there -- followed by an inexorable stagger to the right. Even after all the bean counting, for example, and despite the near appointment of Lani Guinier, Clinton is surrounded with moderate white fellows like Bentsen, Rubin, Panetta and Christopher...
Doctors are hopeful that treatment of familial ALS will shed light on the mechanism which causes other forms of Gehrig's Disease. Researchers suspect that the loss of motor neurons and subsequent loss of muscular control which characterizes all forms of the disease is caused by the action of such dangerous free radicals...
...Concentration wouldn't Probe an important ability that is essential for advance question exams: fine motor coordination. Students are expected to regurgitate their answers at such high speeds that persistent hand cramps, if not full-blown carpal tunnel syndrome, is all but inevitable. Try to stop and rest your wearied fingers and you'll fall behind. Try and pause to consider what you're writing and you'll probably fail...
Proving that Republican filibusters won't work every time, the Senate broke one to pass the so-called motor voter bill. The law will require states to allow people to register to vote when applying for a driver's license, as well as to register by mail and at welfare offices and military recruiting stations. The new system will presumably add many more Democrats than Republicans to the voter rolls...