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...Dunno," said Mildred, my neighbor. "Seems like Mario Cuomo should be here by now." We met at the town recycling center. She was trying to slip an elderly single-bed mattress past the vigilant fellow who runs the garbage hopper...
...support from the West would have the effect of shoring up the crumbling old system rather than helping build a new one. Pouring money into an unreformed economic system without demanding radical changes as a condition is what you would do if you actually wanted to see that economy slip farther and farther into the morass...
...earned a reputation as a stubborn and short-tempered maverick during three terms in the U.S. Senate, the solution was obvious: cut the sales levy and impose a 6% income tax. Addressing the legislature in February, Weicker argued that without tax reform, "our Connecticut, as we envision it, would slip away." But the lack of party ties that made it possible for Weicker to conceive a tax that neither Democrats nor Republicans would propose doomed the idea. With no partisan motive for aiding Weicker, the leaders of both parties helped defeat his plan last month...
...July 1 deadline for approving a budget neared, the lower house of the legislature reversed course and approved an income tax of 4.75%. But hours later, it was voted down in the state senate. Instead, the legislature tried to extend the sales tax to everything from haircuts to boat-slip rentals. Declaring that "it's up to me to harbor the resources of the state as best I can," Weicker vetoed the legislature's budget and suspended nonessential services...
...since they were last together. Many soldiers' marriages, shaky before Desert Storm began, became casualties of the war. Tom Hacker, of Sterling, Ill., marched off to the gulf with his National Guard unit in January. He came home to a hero's welcome in May and a pink slip from the hardware factory where he had worked as a tool-and-dye man. "I felt terrible about it, but the state of orders and the circumstances of business made it necessary," says Stan Whiteman, the personnel manager at the factory. Said Hacker: 'It was like a kick in the teeth...