Word: similarities
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...successful lobbying of the city's Living Wage Campaign, which got the council to institute a $10 living wage for all Cambridge government employees, began with a similar presentation...
Despite succeeding years of more successful but unavoidably devastating surgeries, permanent paralysis of my legs and a nonstop assault of spinal pain, I've experienced no similar encounter. That fact tends to validate, for me, an objective core to the experience. If I manufactured one visionary self-consolation, why wouldn't I have repeated that solace in ensuing years of even worse trouble? In any case, to the surprise of my doctors, I've survived without apparent return of the cancer, and my life is more rewarding and productive than before that washing in Galilee. My lifelong sense that Jesus...
Still, it's too early to count out the embargo's tenacious Cuban-American lobby. Its chief muscle is in the House, where efforts similar to Ashcroft's have been killed this year. "Trading with the most anti-American dictator in the world is a cheap, cynical manipulation of farmers' emotions," said Jorge Mas, head of the Cuban-American National Foundation in Miami. Besides powerful Republican Senator Jesse Helms--who tightened the embargo in 1996 after Castro's air force shot down two small U.S. civilian planes near Havana--Mas has two other key allies: presidential contenders George W. Bush...
...courts have become so hostile to affirmative action that spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to defend Atlanta's program is futile. Instead, says Tucker, Atlanta should replace its program with one that gives preferences to local companies, as Detroit did in 1994 when it was faced with a similar challenge. Since then, she says, black- and female-headed companies there have obtained about $600 million in contracts, roughly the same as under the old approach...
...been a tough one for bond investors. With interest rates going up, bond prices have declined. But higher bond yields also create opportunities for fixed-income investors. A tax swap--in which you sell a bond that has lost some of its value and then buy a similar bond in order to take a capital loss--allows you to realize the losses on your bond portfolio. "It's the first really good opportunity for a tax swap since 1994," says William Hornbarger, a fixed-income strategist at A.G. Edwards. A bond swap may not be such a good idea, though...