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...that a federal pardon might raise only $1 billion to $2 billion. Critics of an amnesty, including the IRS, contend that the extra revenue would be canceled out by increased evasion from scofflaws banking on similar programs in the future. "Even if an amnesty is successful, it is a short-term benefit," said Republican Senator Slade Gorton of Washington. "It tells taxpayers that they are suckers...
...This short-term warning period could lead to abrupt lay-offs," said Leach, former director of the federal Equal Opportunity Employment Commission...
...between South African officials and international bankers who have been demanding evidence of racial reforms before they would agree to reschedule part of South Africa's $24 billion foreign debt, which has been frozen since last September. Last week the two groups met in London and agreed to a short-term compromise that renews existing loans to South Africa...
...think we've got a handle on the short-term homeless situation," Johnston said...
...Florida Clearinghouse on Human Services at a hearing in Tallahassee, "will result in the dismantling of many lifesustaining programs." Ron Anderson, president of Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, denounced cuts in Medicare, Medicaid, maternal- and child-health grants and childhood immunization programs as being likely to produce "short-term gains and long-term tragedies...