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...test, denying such families the handout that has proven so versatile and so costly to the Budget's bottom line. Howard sees family payments as an important symbol (and a terrific way to rain money on key groups of voters). The Prime Minister describes Labor's proposal as "the thin edge of the wedge." Future Labor Treasurers, he warns, would define down definitions of "rich" and "wealthy." On the government's own figuring, lowering the eligibility limit to annual incomes under $A125,000 would save "less than $100 million." Each year the FTB system grows, as revenue is churned back...
...square 200 m away. But first I need to center him in my rifle's sights. I've managed to get the ring of the front sight to sit just inside the slightly larger ring of the rear sight. Now I shift my stance, trying to make the the thin black post in the front sight touch the center of the soldier's belt. The rifle is heavy, and the sight picture-the relationship of rings, aiming post and target-won't stay still. But I've only a couple of seconds left. I squeeze the trigger-"gently," says...
While the chance to save money in an industry notorious for wafer-thin margins draws new members, many veterans say the group's greatest value is its camaraderie and exchange of ideas. Dine Originals restaurateurs frequently refer customers to one another and eat at other member restaurants when they travel. During their four months together, Lathrop and the Von Rutenbergs shared recipes and taste tests in addition to kitchen counters. "We started to feel like part of their family," says Lathrop. Those ties remain: the Von Rutenbergs' restaurant now serves Lathrop's cheesecakes...
Zacarias Moussaoui will live out the rest of his days surrounded by poured concrete, with a thin horizontal window providing his only view of the country he conspired to attack. He'll be in this cell at all times except for the 90 minutes he'll get five days a week to go outside into a caged courtyard to exercise on his own, with no contact with other inmates. This is life at ADX Florence, the maximum security prison in the high desert of southeastern Colorado where the convicted 9/11 conspirator will almost certainly begin his life sentence. (The Bureau...
...Moussaoui, 37, will likely be held in the most restrictive part of the prison, sleeping on a thin, green mattress that rests on an unforgiving concrete bed. He can sit on a concrete stool at a concrete desk to write letters and read books. Above him at all times will be a video camera monitoring his every move. If he is well behaved, he could eventually be allowed to have a black-and-white television in his cell that plays, on closed circuit, religious programs, psychological help tapes or educational shows. His toilet can flush only a certain number...