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...enters the campaign for national elections Sept. 22, the FDP has come out for a sharp reduction in income taxes for the wealthy as the recipe for cutting unemployment. Under the FDP's program, the top rate of income tax would drop to 35% from the present steep 48.5%. In addition, the FDP proposes to offer a 37,500 deduction for each child. "You say that reducing tax costs money," FDP leader Guido Westerwelle told Chancellor Gerhard Schröderin parliament during a recent debate on the economy. "We say nothing is more expensive for the country than administering unemployment...
...captains as models of diplomacy. "There's much to be learned from how people conducted themselves a long time ago," he says. For the Nez Perce, it is about respect--respect for other people, respect for the landscape. That is the lesson of the Lolo Trail: wild, rugged, steep, remote, it too commands our respect...
...demand for 17,000 sq. ft. of office space at the airport to house what will eventually be a force of nearly 2,000 people in three rotating shifts. Baumgartner wants to charge the going rate of $72 per sq. ft.; the TSA complains that's too steep for a federal agency already stretched thin. "You can't just walk 2,000 people into an airport and put them somewhere," says Baumgartner. "You have to do a lot of work beforehand...
...first glimpse of her roots had come two days earlier. Our passenger plane from Thailand dropped through a thick layer of cloud to reveal steep, wrinkled peaks flanking a jade patchwork of paddies. As we whizzed over the treetops to land outside the main town of Jinghong?or in Dai Lue, Chiang Rung, "the city of the dawn"?what looked like dozens of Pizza Huts peeped from the verdure. This was the unique architecture of the Dai?their signature, high-canted roofs perched atop thick teak pillars...
They had searched portions of the park, but police say it was impossible to cover the entire expanse, given its size (more than 1,700 acres). Instead, they stuck mainly to well-trod paths and areas nearby. Levy's remains were found on a steep slope in a remote, wooded area. Experts say even if police had searched there, the body could have been concealed by dirt or leaves. There is also the possibility that the body was not in that location the entire time but was brought there more recently...