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...other party, smokers, would find some limitations on their behavior but nothing approaching the banning of tobacco. Smokers will still have every right to continue smoking as much or as little as they wish, as long as it does not threaten the health or enjoyment of anyone else. We have laws on public drunkenness, we have speed limits--we should have stronger smoking restrictions...
...there are relatively few ``greedy geezers'' to be gouged. Nearly 80% of all Medicare benefits go to households with annual incomes less than $25,000. Another Republican proposal would simply impose a cap, a fixed percentage, on the growth of Medicare's budget. But opponents claim this would threaten vulnerable hospitals in inner cities and rural areas, while creating chaos in a program destined to grow larger from the addition of aging baby boomers...
...introducing a nationality-based fee scale for work permits. The fees range from $1,520 for Mauritanians and $1,160 for Malians down to $95 for French or U.S. nationals. Foreigners must pay up or leave by Feb. 15. With petitions signed by thousands of unemployed Gabonese who threaten to ``kill and burn'' illegal immigrants, western and central Africans are spending their savings for a ticket home. Said Tankara Ibrahima, a merchant who disembarked at Abidjan to continue overland to Mali: ``They were not nice about the new decision. They did not treat us well...
...seized a quick 3-0 lead--a lead it would never relinquish. Harvard fought back to 3-4, but the Big Green was determined to take at least a set for its efforts in Cambridge. Dartmouth ran off the next six points, and Harvard did not threaten in the set again...
...Carl Rowan, the suit contends that during Gibson's 10 years as chairman, he has run up $500,000 worth of charges on his N.A.A.C.P.-paid American Express Card, while receiving at least $300,000 in reimbursements for the same expenses. ``I've known Gibson to call up and threaten to kick people's ass if the American Express bill wasn't paid on time,'' says a former N.A.A.C.P. administrator. ``He traveled first class all the time.'' This alleged high living occurred at a time when the N.A.A.C.P. was running up a $4.5 million deficit, furloughing 90 members...