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...constraint should be applauded. And whether or not any of the rest of his "New Democrat" agenda becomes law, if Clinton substantially reduces the debt he will be widely hailed. So Clinton is right to back off his plan for a middle-class tax cut and right again to "revisit" the proposal to increase gasoline taxes, regressive levies he routinely dismissed as unfair during the campaign. He is even right to soften his campaign rhetoric about halving the deficit in four years, downgrading that objective from a pledge to a "goal." Backing away from an unrealistic target sooner rather than...
...back in this cabin aboard the orbital tug Goliath, commanding the 100-person team of Operation ATLAS the most critical mission in the history of space exploration. Toby, and the stepmothers and stepfathers of his extended family, remained behind on a distant world which Singh could never revisit. Decades in space -- and neglect of the mandatory zero-G exercises -- had so weakened him that he could now walk only on the Moon and Mars. Gravity had exiled him from the planet of his birth...
This was the key problem of Johnson's last years. He and Krake fled Scandinavia before the Nazi advance. They arrived in New York in 1938. Johnson applied for a grant to revisit the scenes of his childhood to "paint Negro people," as he put it, "in their natural environment," meaning by "natural" the rural South. The money didn't appear, but he painted the pictures anyway without leaving Manhattan. For the next seven years of his life, Johnson worked in a style that oscillated between folk art and caricature. On the whole, his images of life and manners...
...Americans again fret whether the U.S. can survive changes brought by immigration, it is heartening to revisit the songs of Irving Berlin, a Russian Jewish immigrant whose words and music, from God Bless America to White Christmas to There's No Business Like Show Business, prove how readily and deeply he resonated with the spirit of his new nation. His work is gloriously celebrated in SAY IT WITH MUSIC at New York City's ritziest nightclub, Rainbow & Stars, on the 65th story of NBC's building in Rockefeller Center. A cast of seven led by Kaye Ballard performs 47 songs...
...employed and allow companies to be good corporate citizens, not allow bankruptcy to be a shield for purposes for which it was never intended. Right now," Giordano says, Chapter 11 "is just a hodgepodge that's being decided on a case-by-case basis. It's probably time to revisit the law itself...