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...immediate hope is that federal money, finally earmarked last week, will help the nine children who have been evacuated get treatment for solvents abuse. Five others, accompanied by family members and interpreters, will follow them to a native-run facility in Alberta. The Innu band council will also seek a treatment center within the village itself. Beyond that, the people of Davis Inlet will take up a new government offer for eventual relocation on the Labrador mainland, probably at Sango, about 11 miles to the west, where there is an ample water supply and the possibility of jobs...
...dampen expectations of a middle-class tax cut. Meeting with business executives the next day, he floated the idea of a hike in the top corporate tax rate, currently 34%, as well as a broad-based energy tax. But the President backed away from hints that he might seek a one-year freeze on Social Security cost of living adjustments, after trial balloons to that effect caused a predictable uproar among the elderly and their friends in Congress. Clinton called on Americans to hear the "alarm bells in the night" about the economy. But as the COLA episode suggested, some...
...Some of the board were concerned with the ongoing management of the arts council. They wanted to seek improvement of operation of the council," Rossi said...
...would love to pursue a singing career, but I really don't know," Thompson says. "I'm not going to wipe tables in New York for two years and do it that way. I'm not trying to seek a recording contract...
...Powers Act, passed despite President Nixon's veto in 1973, required the president to seek Congressional funding and approval for executive military action within 90 days of the action itself. This period was later shortened to 60 days. Though 90 days seems a short period of time in the context of a war that lasted more than ten years, the United States' current capacity for fast, easy war-making makes 90 days an eternity...