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...bill, though, is only the first, and probably the smallest, of the steps that have to be taken. Even after its passage, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimates that deficits will run around $150 billion in each of the next three fiscal years, dwarfing the record $110 billion now expected for the financial year that ends Sept. 30. The Administration, of course, calculates much lower figures, but it is assuming passage of spending cuts that Congress has not yet enacted...
While regional beermakers struggle for national status, they have created an opening for tiny so-called boutique breweries. Last year seven of the nation's ten smallest boosted their sales. Too insignificant to get pushed around much by bigger brands, they concentrate on developing products with a unique taste and appeal. Among the best: Stevens Point Brewery of Stevens Point, Wis., which makes what a tasting panel assembled by Chicago Newspaper Columnist Mike Royko called the finest beer brewed in America; Leinenkugel of Chippewa Falls, Wis., which has been operated by the Leinenkugel family for 115 years; and Geyer...
From big metropolitan medical centers to the smallest of rural community hospitals and clinics, such horror tales of runaway medical costs are becoming all too common. As medical technology keeps improving and advancing, bringing steady torrents of new and ever more exotic and sophisticated equipment and practices to market, the already high cost of medical care has been rising faster than ever. In the process, the U.S.'s $285 billion-a-year business of curing the ill and diagnosing the diseased has become an inflationary juggernaut that is literally laying siege to the entire economy...
...that John Paul spends too much time making and planning trips and not enough on the administration of the Holy See. They could perhaps point to the current labor situation in Rome, where a labor association representing most of the 1,800 lay employees in the world's smallest state plans an unprecedented two-hour strike against Vatican City on June 14, just before the Pope leaves to address the International Labor Organization in Geneva. Their demands include a 20% pay increase, more generous child allowances and pensions and a 36-hour week. The workers hope the protest will...
...woes and an occasional missing key. According to Whitty, the problems her office has to handle during exam period strangely croup up on Saturdays and or days when Exam Group XI finals are given She is hard pressed to account for this dual phenomenon Group XI is traditionaly the smallest set of exams and may full administrators into a false sense of security, she theorizes. As for weekend exams, Whitty will only say. "If it's Saturday, you always know something terrible is going to happen...