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...Watertown town website, the community stands to lose $3.5 million of its total $68 million revenue base if the property is converted to non-profit status. Needless to say, a small community like Watertown cannot afford to lose nearly 5 percent of its tax revenue in one fell swoop. The town converted the Arsenal property into a business complex in 1998 and was anticipating a large amount of tax revenue from the site, after receiving nothing in taxes from the property during its past 200 years as a military base. Without the planned revenue, the town says it will...
...from the working Senate or House, not with the margins of power as slender as they are in 2001. And Democrats from the Ford, Reagan or Bush administrations were few and far between. So Bush tapped Norman Mineta for transportation secretary - getting diversity, experience and Democratism in one fell swoop - and Hillary won't be the only Clinton holdover working in Washington this year...
...House, not with the margins of power as slender as they are in 2001. And Democrats from the Ford, Reagan or Bush administrations were few and far between. So Bush tapped the current commerce secretary, Norman Mineta, for transportation secretary - getting diversity, experience and Democratism in one fell swoop - and ensured that Hillary won't be the only Clinton holdover working in Washington this year...
...Bush named last week to be his attorney general. Bush had been thinking about Ashcroft for nearly a month, but a senior Bush official told TIME.com on Saturday that the more moderate the Cabinet became last week, the more sense it made to mollify conservatives in one fell swoop. Democrats will concentrate their fire on the Missouri Republican, whose almost-pure brand of conservatism guarantees a sea change at the Department of Justice. But barring a surprise, even Democrats expect Ashcroft will be confirmed...
There is no truth or courage in a stacked democratic election, and there is no devotion to duty in a spoils system. Even so, both have become part of the establishment of our undergraduate organizations--sacrificing our principles and deserving leaders in one fell swoop...