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President Clinton may champion welfare reform for the poor, but he plans to cut only a fraction of the far more expensive federal handouts enjoyed by well-off Americans. As Clinton drafts a plan to slice $145 billion from the annual deficit by the end of his term, he is considering -- and mostly rejecting -- suggestions from his economic advisers and independent budget analysts that the U.S. could save more than $60 billion a year by digging deeper into the federal-spending programs and tax breaks that largely benefit the wealthiest 10% of Americans, which means households earning more than...
...prices are also totally out of whack. Two dollars for a slice. Five dollars for a sandwich. Tommy would have gone on an oat bran diet before he charged $6 for a hamburger...
...slim slice of cake--you can't have...
...entirely. Okay, so I skied off the side of the trail a few times, but I never hit a tree. I fell down a few times, but everybody does. I kept my knees bent. I leaned into my turns. More mechanical than graceful, I didn't slice through the snow with the grace of Roger Moore in "The Spy Who Loved Me." But I didn't completely suck...
...play addresses an idea, not a slice of everyday life. Ibsen has unrealistically attempted to cram the Doctor's psychological transformation from peaceful burgher to megalomaniac into two stage hours. Director Billy Hulkower would ideally make this metamorphosis more believable by hinting at it early in the production. As it is, this sudden transformation jars. The music, becoming audible at random moments throughout the production, also adds to the sense of unreality...