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While that number is high now, it is nothing compared to the expected boom in Internet sales in the coming years. Today, by NGA estimates, 90 percent of most products are sold in stores, and only one percent of sales occur over the Internet. Yet, by the year 2002, electronic commerce within the United States is projected to grow from a current $8 billion to $300 billion, and the NGA calculates this will cost states and localities between $8 billion to $10 billion in foregone revenues. This is an expensive problem: states raise 50 percent of their revenues from sales...
...eight state and local representatives have been named, but ten instead of eight business representatives were. There are no representatives of consumer groups. Governors pushed Congress to make changes and one business representative was dropped for a local person. They are waiting to see what other changes might occur...
...that "although crime in New Haven is down 33 percent since 1990 and Yale's campus police force has been doubled in the last decade, the tragic things that happen in the world will happen here from time to time - which does not make them less grievous when they occur...
...vigorously anyone argues that the Christmas tree has become a secular artifact, it is still a Christmas tree, and carries all the associated symbolism when it is placed in House foyers. Sofen remarks, "I find it funny that in a school so committed to diversity, this doesn't occur to anyone--at least no one in the administration...
...waiting for either a clear incident or a clear pattern of non-cooperation. "There is no indication of a massive U.S. attack at the moment," says Dowell, "but a surgical air strike could occur at any time if it were warranted." If the U.S. were to push the button the most likely targets would be Iraqi communications and military units. The real source of contention -- biological weapons lab -- would probably not be hit. "The equipment in such labs is dual purpose," says Dowell. "Unless the facilities are turned around for military use, they are used to produce harmless civilian products...