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Still, supporters of a gas-tax increase say it has emerged as the best option for cutting the deficit. Each 1 cents per gal. would bring in $1 billion in annual revenue, according to a widely used rule of thumb. Rostenkowski last month suggested a 15 cents-per-gal. increase but would probably settle for less. To ease the burden on low-income motorists, Rostenkowski would provide them with income tax credits. Says Rostenkowski: "I don't think it's as regressive as people make it out to be." Advocates of the tax also point out that by throttling back...
...Captain Manda Schossberger, the team's best hitter, suffered an injury to her thumb in the second set that may force her to miss some games...
Schossberger. who went into the game with ligament damage in her right thumb, hurt her left thumb while trying to block a spike by a Princeton player...
...there's ligament damage in my left thumb as well as my right," Schossberger said yesterday. "The swelling's gone down, and I'll have to see how it feels by the end of the week...
...reincarnations of J.F.K. have had traces of the farcical. In 1984 Gary Hart, during the primaries, slipped into a bizarre physical impersonation that had him descending the stairs of airplanes with just the gingerly J.F.K. inclination of bad back and his right hand tucked into his jacket pocket, the thumb protruding in the way that Kennedy's always did. The American voter began to think of Madame Tussaud's, or of Elvis impersonators...