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...renewal in Congress this year: the Endangered Species Act, which prohibits development that drives a species to extinction; and the Clean Water Act, which contains a provision protecting wetlands from uncontrolled exploitation. The wise-users are pressuring Congress to weaken those laws as a way to spur economic growth. Another goal is to block proposed reforms of the federal mining law that would make it harder for companies to open mines on public land. "Anytime anyone gets as much power as the environmental movement has achieved, a backlash can be expected," says Oregon logger Tom Hirons...
...from money invested in new businesses and kept there for five years. He would grant tax credits on purchases of new plants and equipment, but only to small and medium-size businesses and only for purchases that exceed the average for the prior three years. The purpose is to spur new investment without giving a windfall to individuals and companies that cash in profits on investments made years ago or merely continue their existing level of buying plants and equipment...
BUSINESS Stocks skid as low interest rates fail to spur the U.S. economy...
...sight of young black children entering a previously all-white Little Rock, Ark., school as Army troops stood guard caused millions of Americans to instinctively understand the rightness and the promise of integration. "Bull" Connor's Birmingham cops and dogs signaled the distance still to travel and helped spur the end to de jure segregation. The image of Richard Daley's Chicago cops clubbing peaceful demonstrators in 1968 caused the Democratic Party to reform itself. To hear the words Kent State is to recall how Americans came finally to recognize the lies and dissembling that characterized the Vietnam...
...have lying around just in case they decide to play a joke. Because the sukkah is located away from the main thoroughfare, the act was so time consuming, and the damage was so extensive, it is ridiculous to think the decision to vandalize it was made on the spur of the moment. The act must have been intentional and planned...