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...poor." Unfortunately, the recent budget released by the Bush administration seems to be doing just that--paying for a bloated, unfair tax cut by cutting valuable services to those most in need. As the tax bill moves through Congress, members of the House--and especially the Senate--should steadfastly resist all efforts to undermine the nation's fiscal stability...
...passage strategy, even in the side of Congress where Bush has the votes. The $958 billion in marginal rate adjustments are straightforward and evenhanded, and don't skew rich very much at all - the death tax repeal does most of that - so they'll be that much harder to resist politically...
...booked in advance, only agreed rates and the pull of a big repeat client, which can throw its weight around if it chooses to help you. That may not be the case in a place like San Juan, Puerto Rico, where hotel rooms are so expensive that airlines will resist mightily having to give you a room...
...construction. Even Italy's government has introduced measures to admit 63,000 industrial laborers a year. Says British European Parliament Member Graham Watson: "Many states are seeing that in order to close the back door, we need to open the front door a bit more." Europe may still resist the idea that it is a Continent of immigrants. But in order to thrive, it has no choice but to become...
...Aside from their major criticisms of collegiate athletics, Shulman and Bowen (who claim to be pro-sport) cannot resist inserting minor anti-athlete barbs into their book. They begin one of section of a chapter on women's sports by quoting a Princeton basketball player: "She was trying to get all up in my face, and I just clocked her. I started hammering her." This quote has no apparent relevance to the chapter, which explains the history of women's athletics. It seems that the authors dug up the most unflattering quote they could find to execute an underhanded attack...