Word: planning
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...With these searchlights, you literally create a canopy over the city," said Pallas Lombardi, the executive director of the Cambridge Arts Council, which is studying the plan's cost and feasibility. Lombardi said the arts council is also considering putting together a giant citywide calendar of millennial events...
Neelan was actively lobbying for parliamentary support for President Kumaratunga's peace plan which he helped draft...
...peace plan--which advocated shifting of power to northern and eastern provinces where Tamils dominate--was strongly opposed by the more radical Tigers, who advocate a separate Tamil homeland...
...almost ready for their showdown. By a 57-43 vote that got ?- but didn?t need ?- support from four Democrats, Senate Republicans passed their ten-year, $792 billion plan to give Americans an annual April dividend on their surplus. They don?t have a bill that'll go anywhere -? President Clinton, says TIME White House correspondent Jay Branegan, "will veto anything this big" -? but Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott and his House counterpart, Speaker Denny Hastert, have their defining issue. "We want to cut taxes and the President wants to spend it," Lott said after the vote. "That's what...
...Compromise or confrontation? William Roth?s Senate plan takes small, negotiable bites: Reduce the 15 percent tax bracket to 14 percent and expand that bracket; ease the "marriage penalty," reduce estate taxes and increase contribution limits for IRAs. The House proposal is uncompromising swordplay -- cut the capital-gains tax and slash income taxes, across the board, by 10 percent. "It?s up to the Republican caucus what they want to do now about a final bill," says Branegan. "If they decide to try to attract some Democratic support, it?ll look more like the Roth plan. If they want...