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Various support programs for the middle and upper classes are also humming along nicely. Large-scale farmers and well-to-do retirees still enjoy federal largesse, as do oil companies and people earning more than $200,000 (whose income is taxed at a 28% marginal rate, while a working couple with a taxable income of $71,900 pays 33%). Those who gain from such Government generosity vote -- and contribute money -- in disproportionately high numbers and are the heart of the Republican electoral coalition. As long as the middle class has remained relatively unaffected by Washington's retreat, the Republican strategy...
...Armenian supreme soviet who spent six months in confinement: "Relations are still tense between us, but we talk a lot." Expressions of hatred toward Azerbaijan are the rule. "They had an earthquake in Baku recently," recounts an Armenian girl. "Too bad it didn't hit 20 on the Richter scale and wipe them...
...former administrator of the EPA and now chief executive officer of Browning-Ferris Industries, a major waste-management firm, believes a historical watershed is at hand. If the industrialized and developing countries did everything they should, he says, the resulting change would represent "a modification of society comparable in scale to the agricultural revolution of the late Neolithic age and to the Industrial Revolution of the + past two centuries...
Just as environmentalism began as a local movement, it must continue to grow at the grass roots even as it gathers force in the chanceries and parliaments of the world. Individuals and nations alike must learn to think on a far broader scale about themselves, their needs and their interests or a global catastrophe will force them...
...moderate aftershock registered 3.9 on the Richter scale at 1:13 a.m. yesterday, centered about seven miles southwest of Los Gatos, University of California at Berkeley seismologists said. It was felt north and south of San Francisco...