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With the CDC on the case, a better understanding of the illness may not be too far away. In the meantime, CFS sufferers are getting impatient. "The surveillance program is better than nothing," says 37-year-old Barry Sleight, a CFS patient and lobbyist in Bethesda, Md., "but it needs to be expanded. My God, this is an epidemic...
Just how embedded this budgetary sleight of hand has become was illustrated during hearings by the Senate Finance Committee last week. U.S. Comptroller General Charles A. Bowsher described how the Government moved $52 billion from the Social Security trust funds, as well as $71 billion from other Government trust funds, to give the impression that the 1989 federal deficit was $152 billion. The real figure: $275 billion. "The growing reserve is merely an illusion," Bowsher declared...
Where? George Bush, meet your budget, a good old-fashioned Republican document that unmasks the State of the Union as an exercise in sleight of mouth. As a true reflection of the President's will, Bush's budget barely funds many of the programs that could conform reality to rhetoric, and fairly guts many others...
Williams, who says the average Pell Grant will fall from $1482 this year to $1443 next year, considers the budget "a study in sleight of hand...
...week of February. By declaring the Postal Service's deficit "off budget," the number crunchers "saved" $1.7 billion. A similar bit of wizardry -- prepaying a $3 billion Pentagon payroll in the 1989 fiscal year -- "reduced" the 1990 deficit by that amount. Bush was in no position to resist the sleight of hand: the legerdemain was originally concocted by his budget director, Richard Darman...