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The real deal making was done over so-called transition rules, which postpone or eliminate new taxes for certain individual businesses. The House- passed bill is studded with some 200 transition rules, which have been written to protect pet projects in a Congressman's district or large industries with particular...
Four star-studded teams. Two thrilling contests. National rankings at stake.
Crunch week also meant that Sacramento's calendar was studded with fundraising events. On Tuesday evening some 100 guests nibbled on shrimp and crayfish at Assemblyman Gerald Felando's $500-a-person "Annual Fresh Seafood Reception," held in the tony Sutter Club, two blocks from the statehouse. On Wednesday there...
To push tax reform through the Democrat-controlled House, the President had taken a calculated gamble and formed an unholy alliance with Ways and Means Chairman Dan Rostenkowski, a bluff old-style Democratic pol. Though studded with deals and concessions to buy off various Congressmen and their constituencies, the tax...
At the eighth annual Kennedy Center gala in Washington, the honorees--avant- garde Choreographer Merce Cunningham, 66, Actress Irene Dunne, 81, Comedian Bob Hope, 82, Playwright-Lyricist Alan Jay Lerner, 67, Composer Frederick Loewe, 84, and opera's Beverly Sills, 56--were wined and dined for two days, but not...