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...Phelps, who earned a bachelor's in fine arts from the Rhode Island School of Design, the store is her "palette...
...coalition of strange bedfellows is starting to line up behind Moynihan's plan. The bill's co-sponsors include liberal Democrats, like Hawaii's Daniel Inouye and Rhode Island's Claiborne Pell, and conservative Republicans, like Orrin Hatch of Utah and Steve Symms of Idaho. But Moynihan still faces obstacles -- not least the Democratic House leadership. Pointing to the yawning federal deficit, House Ways and Means Committee chairman Dan Rostenkowski argues that "the last thing we should be doing is cutting taxes." Speaker Tom Foley remains on the fence. Senate majority leader George Mitchell, initially cool to the Moynihan plan...
Panel members Fabio Feldmann, a member of Brazil's Congress, Claudine Schneider, former member of Congress from Rhode Island and Maurice Strong, secretary-general for the 1992 U.N. Conference on Environmentalism and Development, spoke and answered questions about the future of the environment for more than one hour...
Shaken by the January collapse of the Bank of New England and earlier bank failures in Rhode Island and Massachusetts, Cambridge banks are taking stock of the changing economy and trying to rebuild their customer's trust...
...past recessions, Congress and the states responded to widespread joblessness by allocating extra money to unemployment trusts so they could extend worker benefits for a few additional months. But during the past few years the Federal Government and the states have tightened eligibility for such benefits. Only Alaska and Rhode Island are currently expanding the assistance. And with everything from the gulf war to the savings and loan bailout competing for scarce federal funds, Congress is not eager to press such a move. For the moment, once they exhaust the standard benefits period, the jobless are on their...