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...differ from the President (the refrain against which all Vice Presidents must play their own tunes). Quayle is loyal to individuals, as he showed in the Senate in 1986 by his frantic efforts to win a judgeship for Daniel Manion (whose written opinions were more embarrassing than Quayle's spur-of-the-moment inanities); but he does not play to lose. If Bush wants to get rid of Quayle, he may get as little cooperation as Eisenhower got from Nixon. Kristol, who turned down other job offers in the Administration to go with Quayle, is firm for his man. Similar...
That kind of enthusiasm helps account for an upsurge in such facilities. There are currently some 300 U.S. museums devoted to children -- twice as many as a decade ago -- and visitors are flocking to them in record numbers. One spur to growth has been concerned parents, who are clamoring for more and better early-learning experiences. "Families are looking for good family activities," says Peter Sterling, president of the Indianapolis Children's Museum. "There's an intuition that what's happening in the public schools isn't enough...
Bush hopes to spur investment by cutting the tax on capital gains, but 50% of adults surveyed in the TIME/CNN poll oppose the idea, vs. 36% who favor it. The President's proposed Family Savings Accounts would be more popular: 72% of those surveyed are in favor of giving savers the incentive of tax-free interest on deposits. But consumers doubt that they will get any tax breaks this year. Most of those polled expect levies to go up (51%) or stay the same...
...goal is truly to spur investment, there's an efficient, inexpensive way to do it: cut the capital-gains tax drastically, but apply the cut only to founder's stock (anyone who starts or invests in a new company) and to securities purchased in a public offering (for example, when a new company goes public or when GM issues $1 billion in new securities to modernize its factories). And don't make the cut retroactive, as the President inexplicably would. How does that help spur future investment? Just apply it to investments made from...
...keeping with that spirit, the new governor said he plans to submit a major reform package to the legislature this month designed to restructure state government. Weld said he would submit a second reform package in February which will include tax relief to spur private innovation and investment...