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...year, $792 billion tax cut passed by the House. That bill calls for a 10% across-the-board income tax cut and a 25% reduction in the capital gains tax--measures that disproportionately favor the wealthiest Americans and that, by their sheer size, have rattled even some fiscally prudent Republicans. (The Senate passed its own tax cut last Friday, which also totaled $792 billion.) That may explain why some Bush advisers last week played down the endorsement's significance. "Can you imagine the Republican front runner not endorsing a tax cut passed by a Republican Congress?" asked...
...grad boards of all the clubs are certainly concerned with prudent management issues," Sears adds. "They have a concerned managerial eye toward the operation...
...Report of the Committee on Harvard-Radcliffe Relationships concluded a merger would not be prudent...
...source of increasing levels of myopia. They didn?t impose some key controls on the research, such as whether the children in the study had nearsighted parents. In the meantime, considering it?s not much of a hardship to switch off the lights, obviously it would seem prudent to let a child under two sleep in the dark. At the same time, it makes sense not to get obsessive about it: "This doesn?t mean you have to change the diaper in the dark," says Gorman. As for those with older children who?ve already slept in lighted rooms...
...effort to reduce passenger load on Puget Sound commutes apparently provoked a petition that warned against the dangers of "butt police." A commuter told Sanchez that at least passengers hadn't had their backsides measured before being allowed to board. But what if space becomes even scarcer? Someday the prudent immigrant might show up for his citizenship exam not just with his papers in order and his head crammed with facts about the Constitution but also with everything emptied out of his back pockets...