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...Central Intelligence Agency -- the budget for its National Foreign Intelligence Program. And now the secret is out. In a letter to Senators before he left, outgoing spy chief ROBERT GATES urged them to reject a $1 billion cut in the program's budget. Senators described the $1 billion slash as a 5% cut. If 5% of the budget is $1 billion, the program's budget must be $20 billion. Intelligence officials, with a wink, confirm the figure. Basic math skills + common sense = government secrets revealed...
...intent. Clinton's design will be elaborate, the policies intricately machined. The President aimed to ask Congress to adopt a package that would raise a variety of taxes (on energy, high salaries and corporations), cut a handful of others (on investments in new businesses and on the working poor), slash spending on some fronts while adding new money for job training and road building, for example...
...want." He has dated Brooke Shields, but the actress says, with a smile in her voice, "He has not asked me to marry him. Maybe that's going to be on the next Oprah show." Shields, 27, also grew up naked before the camera and understands the slash and burn of early fame. "It is very hard," she says of Jackson, "when your family turns against you, and when anyone you befriend slaps you in the face. It would amaze you the way people hurt him. What amazes me even more is his willingness to forgive. He acknowledges their frailty...
...Social Security," said Isabel Mejia, 79, pausing from her volunteer work, in which she rolls plastic eating utensils into paper napkins. And don't call her stingy: last Christmas she and her fellow elderly collected 25 baskets of goods for the Salvation Army. That said, she wants Clinton to slash the deficit and wishes him "lots of luck...
...hardly worth dealing with greasy wheels and angry car-owners, they said, when bidding matches slash profits to a minimum...