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That's because when the bean counters counted the beans and predicted there would be an extra $1 trillion in 10 years, not counting Social Security revenues, it was assumed that lawmakers would obey the laws they had written and slash future spending by billions of dollars. If lawmakers bail, then there's less extra money to pay down the debt. Republican proposals so far, rather than cutting spending, would increase it next year about $25 billion, which more than wipes out next year's projected $14 billion surplus. The only place to find that money is to raise taxes...
...dictator set only a few conditions: the disbanding of the Catholic-dominated German Center Party and the defining of any Catholic criticism of Nazi political acts as "foreign interference." The 1933 concordat, claims Cornwell, "imposed a moral duty on Catholics to obey the Nazi rulers" and so neutered Germany's "last democratic focus." (Catholics made up one-third of the German population.) Pacelli, meanwhile, commenced his long silence on Jewish persecution...
Anthony's forthcoming album, Marc Anthony (Columbia), due out Sept. 28, is his first major album to feature primarily compositions in English. Anthony not only switches languages for his newest release; he also changes genres--the tracks here are Latin-tinged, but for the most part they obey the standard rules and regulations of Top 40 pop. The best songs on this CD burn with Anthony's customary golden fire: the first single, I Need to Know, has a welcome urgency. In addition, one of the Spanish-language cuts, the salsa-infused De la Vuelta, is vibrant and involving...
...narrative discordance. For 300 pages, Blind Eye has Swango killing people right and left. Yet Stewart's conclusion contains a flurry of qualifying statements like "Swango is the first alleged serial killer in this century to have emerged in the guise of a physician." However inconvenient, writers have to obey libel laws; too many lawyers are watching. But where were the language police when Stewart chose the word guise? It means semblance, and if we know anything for sure, it is that Swango did not resemble a doctor...
...recent months, Alabama, Oregon, Louisiana and Tennessee joined the other states that maintain "do not call" lists that consumers can join and telemarketers must obey. Companies that ignore these no-call lists can pay a high price. In May, Georgia's consumer-affairs office fined TruGreen/Chemlawn $45,000 for repeated violations. In states such as Arkansas and Florida, consumers pay nominal fees to join the lists, and companies pay a few dollars for copies. "It's duplicative, and it's expensive," argues Stephen Altobelli, spokesman for the Direct Marketing Association, says of the state lists. The group maintains a nationwide...