Word: stampings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Speakers including Ogletree blasted the Contract, a controversial proposal that favors massive cuts in federal student aid, Medicaid and food stamp programs...
...plantoday, voting 22-11 to give states more leeway in distributing benefits and to cut off government aid to most legal immigrants. The legislation also would replace cash benefits to thousands of disabled children with expanded medical services. Another House committee approved legislation to tighten rules for the food stamp program and to hold down automatic increases in benefits...
...government wants to stamp us out,'' the big guy says. ``We can do what they do -- cheaper and better.'' For the first time, light dawns on the face of the Simoleons CEO. ``Wait a sec,'' he says, and puts his hands to his temples. ``You can rig it so that people who use E-money don't have to pay taxes to any government? Ever...
...widespread the new communications infrastructure will become. Faithful human couriers still haul letters by mule train to the Havasupai tribe in Arizona and don Santa suits to deliver cards and presents at Christmastime. Besides, the 206-year-old service is planning for its survival -- experimenting with ventures ranging from stamp collectors' services on CD-ROM to the certification of business- related electronic communications, similar to what it now does for postmarked, certified and registered mail. Another scheme would locate electronic kiosks in post offices, allowing Americans without private Internet connections to exchange E-mail and tap into online services offered...
...Altars (Random House; 322 pages; $21), Katherine Mosby audaciously bucks such fashionable themes, and the result is a stunningly lyrical work of fiction. Set in the South during the 1920s and '30s, the novel revolves around the suffering of Vienna Daniels-a woman, Mosby writes, whose "face had the stamp of character intelligence sometimes bestows, and the look of ruined beauty...