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...loose, and the deputy left to avoid a confrontation. Most of the McGuckins remained in the house for the rest of the week, with their dogs about them, with a shotgun, rifles and handguns beside them, with 200 lbs. of food--a recent pickup from a food bank--to sustain them, even as a Pacific front brought rain, strong winds and thunder, ripping branches off trees and chasing sailboats off the lake. The police kept their distance, mindful of the mishandling of the 1992 incident in nearby Ruby Ridge, where FBI agents killed the wife and son of white separatist...
...Thus, Neumark is an advocate of the Federal Earned Income Tax Credit, a wage subsidy, as the best way to benefit lowest-wage workers. Through the Earned Income Tax Credit, adults who are working but not making a sufficient amount to sustain their families are given supplementary income from the government...
...sustain interest in the club, leaders use every imaginable child enticement: colorful Jesus dolls, cheery songs and mountains of sugar. The Pleasant Gap session starts with a round of cookies. At another club nearby, kids who answer scriptural questions get pelted with candy fired out of a spring-loaded catapult. Children get $1 in fake money for coming and $2 for bringing a friend. Every few months, they can redeem the "money" for--guess what?--more candy...
...gasoline, Bill Veno, director of the Global Oil Practice of Cambridge Energy Research Associates, says changing market conditions can't sustain gas at $2 a gal., never mind the $3 that alarmists are bandying about. "We believe gasoline prices may well have peaked, and could come down," he says, noting that refineries are running flat out and inventories have begun to build...
...Small can be beautiful when recruiting new employers. One of the oldest industries in the Tupelo area is furniture, which today accounts for nearly 40% of the region's manufacturing jobs. Local leaders have worked to sustain that industry by, for example, building a trade-show facility the size of four football fields. But they have also labored to attract firms across a broad range of industries. Says Thomas Griffith, mayor of Amory, just south of Tupelo: "We don't want to be too dependent on any one industry. If one plant shuts down, it doesn't hamstring the total...