Word: shifting
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Complexity aside, there is a strong argument that using the tax code is an inefficient and expensive way to accomplish economic or social goals. Most economists will tell you that multiplying IRAs is unlikely to prompt the additional savings the U.S. economy needs; investors may only shift money out of less favored forms of savings. As for college-tuition tax breaks, Richard Murnane, an education professor at Harvard, fears they will turn into "subsidies for middle-class parents sending kids to college. Most middle-class parents do that already, so there's not much gain." Then there...
...Party (P.A.N.) captured two key governorships, including the highest office in Nuevo Leon, an industrial state on the U.S. border. Most important, the P.R.I. lost its majority in the lower house of the national congress for the first time since the party was founded 68 years ago. This tectonic shift in federal power could hamstring the administration of President Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leon, a staunch U.S. ally, and possibly sweep his party out of office when a presidential election is held...
Danny Goldberg, the current CEO of Mercury Records, who signed Jewel to Atlantic before leaving that label, says there's a major musical shift under way. "I associate it with generations of high school students coming along who want ownership of their own culture, who want something different from the people who came before them," says Goldberg, who in the past managed Bonnie Raitt and Nirvana's Kurt Cobain. "So this group is going for a female-leaning, optimistic music, in contrast to the grunge, gangsta-rap chapter that is waning...
...union thus seems reduced to skirmishing, an effort waged largely by miner Frank Leone Jr., 53. He has gone on the midnight shift and stopped attending his beloved archery meets to make time for a series of rearguard actions against the deal. He has dogged the heels of state bureaucrats to block Mettiki and its coal-carrying trucks from getting what the union miners consider regulatory breaks. He protested when the state issued new permits to allow for airborne dust generated by more truck traffic to the power plant; he protested when the state granted permission for Mettiki...
...moving in its direction: critics say Dunn has been able to snub managed care only because Indiana has been among the states slowest to require it. Its economic good fortune will change, they say, when the two automobile companies with large plants in Bedford start requiring employees to shift to managed care and when Medicaid and Medicare begin pushing recipients into HMOs. At that point, if Dunn is to survive, it may have to sell out to a large for-profit chain. Should that happen, Bedford's medical civil war will simply rage on with even greater firepower...