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...Maine Sen. Olympia Snowe has an amendment drafted to allow Navy shipyards to pay taxes on the profit from a ship contract after the vessel is built instead of while it's under construction. That would mean Bath Iron Works, the shipyard in her state, would have more cash on hand during the years a ship is being built. Snowe insists her measure "would not reduce the amount of taxes ultimately paid by a shipbuilder. It simply would defer payment until the profit actually is known...
...some money of his own). For most of his short career--he was 51 when he died--he was ferociously assailed by nearly every critic and journalist in Paris. (Some of them actually liked his still lifes and reserved their scorn for his portraits and figures.) His greatest paintings, Olympia and Le Dejeuner sur l'Herbe, which today are among the unquestioned masterpieces of the 19th century and are seen by many as the twin pillars that mark and hold up the entrance to modernism, were pilloried by every man of taste and jeered at by spectators...
...down the line, when more than two-thirds of the Bush cuts would take effect. And if they were off by less than 2% of GDP five years from now, the surplus would be all but wiped out. "It is imperative that we protect the surpluses," says Maine Republican Olympia Snowe, a trigger proponent who sits on the Finance and Budget committees...
Brown is 23 years old and has worked in the Olympia, Washington attorney general's office and has served as a research assistant for the Human...
...Greenspan liked the idea as an insurance policy against an unexpected and prolonged economic downturn, which is exactly how the 11 moderates who just made Bush's list - Republicans Lincoln Chafee, Susan Collins, Jim Jeffords, Olympia Snowe and Arlen Specter, plus Democrats Bob Torricelli, Evan Bayh, Thomas Carper, Dianne Feinstein, Mary Landrieu and Debbie Stabenow - have seized on it. If the projections go sour, they reason, a tax cut on autopilot could cut into debt reduction and shove the federal government back...