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Four resolutions have been introduced in Congress seeking to repeal or change the luxury tax, and the Bush Administration said last weekend that it wouldn't object to getting rid of the levy. But Washington insiders say the odds of killing the tax are still very low, since it was part of a delicately balanced package. If the tax is eliminated, it could unravel a budget compromise that took months to hammer out. Says a staff member on the House Ways and Means Committee: "Once you allow the process to start, you just don't know where it is going...
...computer imaging screens to ensure that pictures appear on the page with the same richness they have in the original photographs. "People still make the critical decisions," Stelzner insists. "There's no technology that can interpret color better than the human eye." A reassuring thought, because the object of all this effort is to turn out more pleasing pages for the eyes of our readers...
...stepped up their travel abroad to promote the Los Angeles area's position as the country's busiest port, second largest financial center (after New York City) and gateway to the Pacific Rim. Mainly, though, L.A.'s boosters are counting on the very factor that makes the city an object of scorn: the expansive growth that makes it possible for businesses to thrive...
...work. Such was the fate of the reflective, mildly conservative artist -- which Bearden certainly was -- in a culture dedicated to the proposition that only "radical" change matters. The complete institutional sweep made by Abstract Expressionism, by hostility to narrative and by the cult of the huge-object-as-spectacle rudely elbowed Bearden to the side. But this also happened to a lot of fine artists who happened to be white: try finding references to Fairfield Porter's work in the books of the time...
Kevin Sneddon, next-year's Crimson Captain, was the object of much recruiting in 1987 for his outstanding play for the Burlington (Ont.) Junior B Cougars...