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...Instead the city continues to tag, which makes it prohibitive for people to go there, including myself. If I can't find a parking space in one of the lots, I just keep going...
...women eight, in 30 sec., eliminates up to 90% of all challengers. The field is further winnowed by subsequent requirements: running the 40-yd. dash in under 6 sec., winning a one-on-one game of tug-of-war, and playing a round of Powerball, a brutal version of tag...
Even so, Bush has vowed to veto a bill passed by Congress last week to help those for whom the times are toughest: an estimated 2.4 million unemployed workers who have exhausted their jobless benefits. Bush views the price tag as too high -- $6.4 billion to extend benefits for up to 20 weeks -- and contends the measure would bust the five-year budget agreement that the Administration and Congress reached last fall. The jobless-benefits bill has enough votes to override a veto in the House, but probably not in the Senate...
...could turn into a huge, unmanageable boondoggle. "NASA is obsessed with giantism," contends Robert Park, director of the Washington office of the American Physical Society. "They want to accomplish good, solid environmental science," he says, but have proposed to do it with complex, untested hardware. The mammoth price tag is also a concern. Richard Darman, head of the Office of Management and Budget, reportedly quipped, "I didn't know we needed a $30 billion thermometer...
Meanwhile, Harvard had avoided the tag of "scandal" in its dealings with the government, conducting an independent audit of Harvard Medical School billing practices and volunteering to repay the government for $500,000 in questionable expenditures. That cooperative move took some bite out of the U.S. General Accounting Office...