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...cave in and respond to all of Bush's tax-cut talk," says Howard Richards, 68, a retired real estate broker who turned up last week at a Gore tax event in Florida. Another reason is that Gore knows Democrats argue against tax cuts at their peril. Gore's side "spent 20 years getting hammered about the head by Republicans for being the party of tax-and-spend," says Aaron of the Brookings Institution. "They're not going to let that happen to them again...
...cave in and respond to all of Bush's tax-cut talk," says Howard Richards, 68, a retired real estate broker who turned up last week at a Gore tax event in Florida. Another reason is that Gore knows Democrats argue against tax cuts at their peril. Gore's side "spent 20 years getting hammered about the head by Republicans for being the party of tax-and-spend," says Aaron of the Brookings Institution. "They're not going to let that happen to them again...
...tech community, Washington-area execs long kept politics and government at arm's length, believing that all they needed to do was to make profits and create jobs and the lawmakers would leave them alone. But they have come to understand that they ignore Washington at their peril. The Justice Department's antitrust suit against Microsoft in 1998 scared all tech companies smart, and the firms closest to the seat of power are on their way to becoming the most active advocates of the new economy there...
...possible. Skeptics say Jospin has merely done the easy stuff while skipping the tough state reforms. And in the back of every mind is the French revolutionary tradition that has proved time and again that leaders who try to ride roughshod over an angry populace do so at their peril...
...million registered users (who exchange 651 million messages a day) cherish about IM is that it's unadulterated by the viral threats and cybercrap that litter their traditional e-mail accounts. AOL's proposal, besides being in the play-nice-with-Washington mold that Microsoft eschewed to its peril, has the added advantage of being utterly theoretical for the foreseeable future. Said IETF co-chairman Vijay Saraswat, whose group has been mulling instant-messaging standards proposals for two years: "It will provide a lot of food for thought." Sounds like AOL's stranglehold is safe for a while; meanwhile...