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Foley and the once powerful chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, Illinois' Dan Rostenkowski, suffered a stinging setback when six committee Democrats joined all 13 Republicans to help Bush redeem a campaign pledge to reduce this tax. Although Democrats denounced the idea in last year's presidential campaign as a giveaway to the rich (60% of its benefits will go to people with incomes of more than $200,000), the measure is expected to pass in the House. Mitchell vows to try to derail it in the Senate, but he is without the support of Texas' Lloyd Bentsen...
...Greenstein '89-and-a-half is a second-semester senior who believes that Elvis will someday return to redeem us for our sins...
Besides offending women, the ad alarmed health groups because it seemed to give underage readers tips on how to redeem a coupon for free cigarettes. The ad was lambasted last week before the House subcommittee on transportation and hazardous materials, which is considering a tobacco-ad ban. James Johnston, the new chairman of R.J. Reynolds Tobacco, has apologized for the ad. Said he: "It will never run again...
POLAND--President Bush, in a day of high symbolism and support for Poland's strides toward democracy, yesterday offered a modest economic aid package intended to help "redeem the promise of a free Polish republic...
...many homeless people, collecting the deposits on empty beverage containers is not a nickel-and-dime affair -- it's a living. Some redeem 400 or more cans each day, enough to pay for a meal and a night in a flophouse. Last week attorneys for the homeless filed a lawsuit in New York, one of nine states that require deposits, alleging that some of the state's largest supermarket chains have been breaking the law to discourage the scavengers...