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...SLASH IT, CUT IT, SHUT IT DOWN. The raging rhetoric in Washington's budget battle has revolved mostly around government spending cuts: who must take the pain, and how much of it. But as the dealing moves into what may be the final stages, the other side of the balance sheet--taxes, specifically tax cuts--has become just as contentious a battleground: who will get the payoff, and how much of it. With both sides closing the gap between their spending plans, the focus will turn to the proposed $245 billion G.O.P. tax reduction and Bill Clinton's $98 billion...
...distinction between foil and sabre bouts is that the foil is a point weapon and thus the fencers must stab their opponents. A sabre is a slash weapon, and thus the fencer may stab or cut. In an epee bout, by contrast, whichever fencer hits first gets the touch...
...Freshmen legislators are so focused on their domestic agenda--the Contract with America has no foreign-policy provisions--that diplomacy has little value for them "except as a great place for drive-by shootings of the Clinton Administration," says a former Reagan Administration official. The new arrivals want to slash funding for the U.N. and cut the number of U.S. embassies abroad--some have talked about using the foreign-aid budget to build a big fence around the country--but they back higher military spending. "They figure we ought to basically tell other countries what to do because...
...offices, which account for some 15% of the bank's international assets. But the president of Daiwa, Takashi Kaiho, lashed out at the indictments, calling them "very inappropriate," and vowed to fight the charges. At the same time, Kaiho said the bank would reappraise its foreign ventures and slash its work force from 9,600 to 7,000 employees...
...southern Utah but for all America's remaining wild lands as well. If the Utah bill becomes law, "protection" for all these wild places might include logging trucks, oil rigs or other industrial development. Special interests are getting special treatment at a time when Congress has promised to slash government waste. And people said there would be no more business as usual. PAMELA EATON, Regional Director, Four Corners States Wilderness Society Denver...