Word: supportable
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...starters, many economists doubt that huge tax cuts make sense at a time when the U.S. economy is running flat out after nearly nine years of expansion. Slashing taxes now "seems a little odd," says Cynthia Latta, principal U.S. economist for Standard & Poor's DRI. "Its support comes from the assumption that if [the surplus] is not handed back to taxpayers, the government will just use it for more programs." Latta's fellow critics include Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, who warned last week that "the timing is not right" for the House measure, which calls for a 10% across...
Connerly has another agenda. He's trying to force the Republican Party and its elected officials to join his anti-affirmative-action crusade. In California and Washington his referendums won handily--54% and 58%, respectively--but Connerly had to do it with little institutional support. That pattern is being repeated in Florida. According to a recent poll, 83% of Florida's potential voters want to end racial preferences. But both Florida's Republican and Democratic political establishments have made it clear that they wish Connerly and his petitioners would just go away...
...addition to Inspector Gadget, Dick is in this fall's animated TV show Sammy, will appear in Picking Up the Pieces with Woody Allen and Sharon Stone, and performed last Friday at Woodstock with his band, the Bitches of the Century. He is two months sober, goes daily to support groups and, despite the mountain incident, insists he wants to live. "There are all kinds of addictions, and I've got every single one," he says. "If you set me in front of anything, I will do it until I ram it into the ground and it's done working...
...that, we need to stay connected to our own families. Elsewhere on this page, we report that older Americans who attend weekly religious services live longer than those who do not--a result of the "social support" they get, say researchers. I'll bet the researchers would find similar benefits among those who get support from extended families. We'll never turn back the clock to keep families from scattering. But parents can help by telling their kids stories about their grandparents, aunts and cousins, and by keeping the relatives informed of the kids' latest activities and interests...
...House proposal is uncompromising swordplay -- cut the capital-gains tax and slash income taxes, across the board, by 10 percent. "It?s up to the Republican caucus what they want to do now about a final bill," says Branegan. "If they decide to try to attract some Democratic support, it?ll look more like the Roth plan. If they want to make an ideologically pure statement, it?ll be more like the House version." Clinton insists he doesn?t care what it looks like -- $792 million is too much. And so, for that matter, is the $500 billion proposed...