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WASHINGTON, D.C.: Revolutions, it is said, eat their young. But sometimes they eat their leaders, and that is the issue on the table today in a closed-door meeting of House Republicans as they decide whether to challenge Newt Gingrich's leadership. Disgruntled sophomore Representatives, many of whom owe their election to Gingrich, are calling for his head out of a growing feeling that he has led them down several politically disastrous blind alleys. An anonymous letter on Congressional stationary, circulated after last week's disaster relief bill debacle, called for a vote of confidence in the GOP's leadership...
...president of government affairs for abc. Though public dissatisfaction is cited as one of the reasons for the industry change of heart--a TIME/CNN poll shows that 80% of parents with children 12 and younger want S, L, V--the real reasons are that the networks want Congress to owe them something. All this could make for one big happy TV press conference, except that nbc, the No. 1 rated network, is concerned about how S, L, V will work with the V chip, and that the ratings might prompt more boycott campaigns. Others say nbc is nervous about parents...
...Maybe I owe my life and a lot of other people owe theirs to George Marshall's vision of recovery and prosperity," Dyhrkopp said...
...from inflation rather than from a real increase in value. Say you buy $10,000 worth of a stock, and after a year its market value is $10,300, up 3%. If the inflation rate that year was 3%, you effectively had no gain. Yet if you sell, you owe tax on the $300 nominal profit. Indexing for inflation would ensure that you pay on gains only beyond the $300. Perfectly logical. A Congressional Budget Office study found that in 1989 the sale of U.S. assets generated net capital gains of $47.3 billion. But adjusted for inflation, those transactions actually...
These criticisms cut straight to the first definition of the value of labor. Here changes should be made, immediately. The workfare workers must be assured that the hours they spend at work be safe and secure. We owe this minimum standard to every worker as a human being, not as an employee...