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Some Ec 10 teaching fellows said yesterday they were disappointed by the new measures. The more stringent guidelines may affect enrollment, they said...
Revenge is a dish best served cold -- and on White House china. While drafting its recently submitted budget, the Bush Administration secretly proposed that the IRS target its stringent audits not on wealthy individuals and companies (whose lawyers can often stall a case for years) but on middle- and lower- income taxpayers (who generally pay up without protest and provide immediate revenue). IRS Commissioner Fred Goldberg rejected the cash-now plan, calling it "no-good tax policy." But his request to spend an additional $76 million to catch rich tax cheats was pared down to a puny $6 million. Could...
...planes, which cost over a billion dollars to develop, easily exceed the Air Force's stringent performance requirements. Both can cruise at supersonic speeds without having to resort to fuel-gulping afterburners, and they have twice the range of the F-15. The aircraft use advanced computerized controls and simplified screens to lighten the pilot's work load. Both candidates incorporate the latest radar-evading "stealthy" features. They pack as much as 20 times the data-processing power of an F-15 for spotting hostile aircraft before being seen themselves...
...enacted in June by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, that would stretch the legal life-span of many atomic plants to 60 years. Although the NRC says it will ensure that the industry addresses age-related issues, some scientists charge that the agency's safety guidelines are not stringent enough to prevent catastrophic accidents. Forty years ago, "these nuclear plants, after concerted study, were granted a finite number of years to operate," says M.I.T. physicist Henry Kendall, who shared a Nobel Prize last year for discovering subatomic particles called quarks. "Now the industry wants to extend that time by 20 years...
...AWARE Week sets up a much more stringent standard--an impossibly stringent standard, in fact. It asks us to identify and expunge every strand and fiber of insensitivity (as previously defined) from our consciousness. This standard encourages us to obsess about race, which, paradoxically, tends to let considerations of race intrude where they have no business and where they would not have arisen otherwise...