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Times Books recently announced that it will publish a book of socially conscious poetry by former President Jimmy Carter. Former brat-pack movie star Ally Sheedy has already published a book of socially conscious poetry. Two notable Americans. Two poems. Question: Whose is whose...
Clinton proposed a 1% tax on large (more than 5,000 employees) companies that self-insure, plus an additional 75 cents-per-pack cigarette tax. Senate Labor exacts a 1% payroll tax on companies employing more than 1,000 and a 2% tax of payrolls of firms employing fewer than six. It also takes cigarette taxes up from 24 cents to $1.24 a pack. Senate Finace also levies a $1.24 cigarette tax and means-tests premiums and co-payments for higher-income Medicare recipients. House Education and Labor places a 2% tax on health-insurance premiums and adds 69 cents...
First stop for the L.D.P. convoy was the Shchelkovo District Administrative Office, located on a central square dominated by a huge statue of Lenin. With a pack of a dozen journalists at his heels, he paraded into the office of Nikolai Pashin, the head of the local administration. Wiping his face with his hands, tweaking his nose and interrupting his host several times to give orders to his aides, he listened as Pashin trotted out a list of ills afflicting the community. No problem was so large that Zhirinovsky wasn't ready with an instant solution. The district's atrocious...
Although we cannot see Zelman's face throughout part of his shoe-tying fiasco, we understand what this whole thing is supposed to communicate. The shoe tying is taken further when Gus finds a peice of cardboard in one shoe and an old pack of cigarettes stuffed into the other one. This scene creates the picture of Gus as a version Lenny from John Steinbeck's Of Mice...
There, a dye pack protecting the money exploded, emitting red dye and tear gas. Banks place dye packs in bundles of money to help stave off robberv. Pasquarello said. When the packs are removed form the bank, they burst...