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...benefits to welfare mothers who bear additional children. Though some of his top advisers still favor it, the President has rejected a plan to raise new revenues by taxing benefits paid to farmers who earn more than $100,000 annually from non-farm income. Instead, Clinton proposes to transfer surplus money from the environmental cleanup Superfund...
...cavalry to bail us out." When he took the reins in 1992, Philadelphia carried a $200 million deficit and municipal bonds with junk- level ratings. Its citizenry, meanwhile, was financially anemic from 19 tax increases in 11 years. Fifteen months later, Rendell had engineered the city's first surplus since 1987 without a tax boost...
...same moment, the country became whole again. The 10 black homelands, including four that had pretended to independence, designed by apartheid architects as places of exile for surplus people with black skin, were abolished. The armed services became the South African National Defense Force, and will begin to absorb former enemies from guerrilla armies like the A.N.C.'s Spear of the Nation. Things were changing so fast, a South African Broadcasting Corp. interviewer lost track of who was President, Nelson Mandela, who will be sworn in next week, or F.W. de Klerk, the incumbent. He turned from talking with...
...many governments can brag of lowering taxes, raising social spending and reporting a $43 billion (US) surplus, all in the same year?" said Fong...
...government unveils market-opening measures to reduce account surplus...