Word: repeals
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Drivers will also lose under the ordinance because the narrowness of Cambridge's streets will often trap them behind bikers moving at school zone speeds. While we are touched that Cambridge cares so much about pedestrians who are too slow to dodge slow-moving bicycles, we ask that it repeal this ordinance to accommodate the ecologically and aerobically sound activity of biking...
...addictive product and not lose sales. In England a pack of smokes goes for nearly $5, vs. less than $2 in the U.S., and yet they still have plenty of smokers. But tobacco users are more price sensitive than you might imagine. Canada in 1994 had to repeal a stiff tobacco tax that had pushed prices past $5 a pack because a violent black market developed. U.S. consumption peaked at 640 billion cigarettes in 1981, which is when the industry started raising prices aggressively. When prices stabilized around 1992, so did demand...
What to do? At one extreme, a Republican bill would repeal the tax entirely. At the other, the White House would merely let heirs to family-owned farms and businesses stretch out payments over 14 years, as now, but defer more tax and pay lower interest on it. The most likely basis for compromise is a G.O.P. bill that has picked up some Democratic support. It would raise the general exemption from $600,000 to $1 million; farms and businesses would be taxed only on half of any amount over $1.5 million...
...mental illness, expensively amended the Kennedy-Kassebaum health-care bill to cover such afflictions. Conservative Republican Senator Al D'Amato, whose top political strategist is homosexual, supports gays in the military. Antiregulation Senator Mike DeWine of Ohio, whose daughter was tragically killed in an auto accident in 1993, opposed repeal of the federal 55-m.p.h. speed limit last year. And columnist George Will, who derides mushy liberal programs, has written movingly in support of government programs that help his son, who has Down syndrome...
...Jeffrey, this just happens to be a bad April 15th for me," I said. "I'm beginning to believe those stories that some rich people are planning to hurry up and die if the Republicans repeal the inheritance tax, just to get in under the wire in case the Democrats win Congress next time and put it back...