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...candidates place a high premium on the strength of the Massachusetts economy, and Roosevelt is no exception. A "no-new taxes" Democrat, Roosevelt says he plans to campaign heavily on economic issues, which he considers Weld's weakest area...
...billion, coupled with a cigarette-tax hike of $1.25 a pack, which would raise $16 billion in annual revenues, provides enough wiggle room to ease the burden on small-business owners. As Clinton had hoped, Stark's plan still requires all companies to pay 80% of insurance-premium costs for their employees; those with fewer than 100 employees have until 1998 to comply while larger employers must meet a 1996 target date...
Information about North Korea's intentions has been at a premium since the aborted mission by the International Atomic Energy Agency in early March. After being stonewalled since February 1993, inspectors were finally allowed back to seven sites at the North's Yongbyon nuclear complex. Nothing unusual was found at six of the sites, but at the seventh, where plutonium for bombs can be extracted from nuclear-fuel rods, the team discovered that an IAEA seal on an area containing a "glove box" for handling radioactive material was broken -- a janitor's mistake, claimed North Korea. But the inspectors were...
...even if they survive appeals by cable companies, the new regulations will have only a limited effect. Rates will drop for basic cable service and expanded cable service, but not for premium services like HBO, Showtime and Pay-Per-View...
...President's plan hangs on a string of interlocking parts: if one piece is removed in the legislative process, the rest of the mechanisms are quickly overloaded and bound to fail. For example, Clinton aims to pay for universal coverage in part by restraining health-care inflation through premium caps. If he backs away from caps, as he did last week, though, controlling inflation will be harder. So would be paying for universal coverage...