Word: presentational
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...present trends continue, predicted James Curran, director of the AIDS program at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, there will be 300,000 cases of AIDS worldwide in 1991. Representatives of the World Health Organization estimated that 5 million to 10 million people now harbor the AIDS virus. Most of them do not show symptoms of the disease, but all are capable of transmitting the virus to others...
Transition rules are especially prominent in the present tax bill, which, unlike previous legislation, sharply raises business taxes. Many companies are crying for relief, and Packwood believes that some have a case. Businesses would be "unfairly disadvantaged," he explains, if they had planned long- term projects on the basis of present tax law and were to lose benefits while those projects are in midstream. The makers of commercial communications satellites, for example, are hardly to blame for the U.S. space disasters that have prevented them from getting the satellites launched. Some have been exempted from a provision ending investment...
...know. Says one Senate aide: "People with access and power and money get them, and those without don't." In particular, the rules are prime trading currency that a broker like Packwood needs to win the support of key legislators, who are thus able to please powerful constituents. The present tax bill might never have cleared the Senate Finance Committee without rules benefiting a slew of projects in the New Orleans area, like the Riverwalk shopping-and-office development, that were added by ranking Democrat Russell Long of Louisiana...
White House Chief of Staff Donald Regan was determined to keep the choice of Burger's successor under tight control. He was afraid that leaks would set judges and politicians scrambling to lobby Reagan for their favorite choices. Instead, Regan wanted to present Reagan with a very few carefully screened names...
Williams plans to present a symposium in September at the 350th celebrations on these findings as well as other archeological finds at Harvard...