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Knowles wrote that a reduction of 20 staffpositions by FY1996 will likely be necessary tocompletely eliminate the deficit. A FAS hiringfreeze which continued through 1994 was offset bythe increase in computer support personnel...
...expert on family incomes. The way Levy sees it, politicians are rushing to the aid of a vanishing middle class that isn't really vanishing. While there has been a big drop in the number of families making $20,000 to $40,000 a year, it has been offset by a sizable increase in the number of families making...
...expert on family incomes. The way Levy sees it, politicians are rushing to the aid of a vanishing middle class that isn't really vanishing. While there has been a big drop in the number of families making $20,000 to $40,000 a year, it has been offset by a sizable increase in the number of families making...
...expressed hope for cyberspace is that any tendency toward fragmentation into contending groups will be offset by a capacity for edifying deliberation. And decorous dialogue has indeed been seen there. But cyberspace is also notorious for bursts of hostility that face-to-face contact would have suppressed. And a perusal of the Internet's newsgroups suggests that any tendencies toward convergence will have some real gaps to bridge. There's alt.politics.greens, alt.politics.libertarian, alt.politics.radical-left, alt.fan.dan-quayle, alt.politics.nationalism.white, alt.fan.g-gordon-liddy, alt.rush-limbaugh.die.a .flaming.death. In a nation that has trouble fixing its attention on the public good and is facing...
...Judging by the lines at return desks last week, this is not a good year. "Returns will be a big deal for the first quarter," says Buyer, who points out that most of the big software companies have set aside twice as much cash as they usually do to offset returns...