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...system, such as introduction of a sales tax, is needed?making it harder to sell a reform that looks like tax relief for gamblers. In September, Financial Secretary Henry Tang said he might consider the reduction if it could be clearly demonstrated that tax revenues would not significantly suffer. He noted, pointedly, that a high gambling tax "is not the only reason behind the drop in revenue" at the club...
...challenge is herding a group of Democratic Senators whose number is set to dwindle to 44 from the current 48. Lest he suffer the same fate as Daschle, he must balance his role as a partisan with the fact that he represents a state that Bush won, albeit narrowly. Reid also can't ignore that other Democratic Senators from Bush states--such as Kent Conrad of North Dakota, Ben Nelson of Nebraska and Bill Nelson of Florida--will be up for re-election in 2006 and don't want to be picked off either. Democratic Senators say Reid plans...
...government's policies toward large families. That's why the Mazzetti clan recently joined the National Association of Large Families, a new organization formed to fight for the rights - mostly economic - of households that include six or more members. Bucking Italy's low fertility rate of 1.29, large families suffer from the same inadequate social policy that demographers blame for discouraging others from having more children: inadequate child care and family leave policy, insufficient tax breaks and no protection against rising housing costs. But le famiglie numerose are also exposed to things smaller families are not: water, garbage and electricity...
Although the all-important share of the Ivy crown is won, the near goals of a victory over archrival Yale and preservation of I-AA’s only unbeaten record mean the Crimson won’t suffer a letdown on Saturday...
Balestracci will never be forgotten, but Everett has done his best this season to make sure that the team doesn’t suffer from the absence of the Inferno on the field...