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...added clean-air costs of $25 billion a year or more may be hard to swallow at a time when politicians are proposing higher taxes and cutbacks in social services. Environmentalists point out that the cost of doing nothing could have been higher, perhaps $50 billion a year. It is not clear, though, exactly how one calculates the price of forests ruined by acid rain or the suffering caused by pollution-related lung diseases and birth defects...
...when a short-term resolution to keep the government running expires. The Democrats predict that the final plan will probably contain a gas tax increase, combined with an increase in the top marginal tax rate to 31%. Fearing the cost of continued deadlock, Bush is likely to swallow his lips and sign the bill...
...with the offspring of other famous people. "My life was like this kind of enviable weird thing that I spent my life apologizing for." Mother Debbie rebounded, marrying retail footwear magnate Harry Karl, who eventually drank and gambled his way through his millions and into debts large enough to swallow her fortune too. The bright starry life-style collapsed by 1972 into a Saturnian world with concentric rings of emotional pain, financial instability and psychological drama. "My mom had the breakdown for the family, and I went into therapy for all of us," says Carrie. To dig their...
Bitter Pill to Swallow: How meaningful was the Big Red's victory over Harvard for McNiff...
...through potato fields outside Moscow have encountered soldiers who really were digging up spuds. The defense and KGB chiefs, however, also insist that some troops are preparing for the Nov. 7 Revolution Day parade, an assertion that Boris Yeltsin, leader of the Russian Republic, for one, finds hard to swallow...