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...includes a back-to-basics reading curriculum, a new set of diagnostic tools to identify problem readers in the earliest grades, programs for teacher training, "school-within-a-school" reading academies and after-school programs. So far, however, it has been underfunded. In 1997 and 1998 it received a total of only $32 million from the state, enough to help just a small fraction of Texas' 1,050 school districts. Now Bush is asking for an additional $203 million for reading, enough to extend the program and pave the way for Bush's other big goal: doing away with...
...spoke of the triangle of American progress, the nine zones of creativity, the four great truths and--his personal favorite--the five pillars of American civilization. (For those taking notes, the five pillars are personal strength, history, entrepreneurial free enterprise, the spirit of invention and discovery, and--seriously--total quality management...
...Washington State's massive Columbia Basin Project. The Federal Government picks up the tab, then bills farmers a sum equal to only a small portion of the actual cost of construction. Then it gives them 40 to 50 years to pay off their share--interest free. Estimates of the total irrigation subsidy since 1902 range from $18 billion to more than $75 billion, with most of that coming in the past decade...
...trade deficit, the object of these legislative exercises? The nation has run deficits in all but one of the 26 years since the tax breaks on export income were enacted in 1971. Total deficits for those years: $2.3 trillion...
...journalists and contributors. Another reform: Gingrich placed six-year term limits on all committee chairmen. But in the days since Newt announced his resignation, his presumptive heir, Bob Livingston of Louisiana, has been peppered with furtive requests from fellow Republicans who want to turn back the reform clock. The total gift ban, they argue, is humiliating because it presumes lawmakers can be bought for a pittance. And some current committee chairmen, faced with losing power in just two years, are suddenly seeing the value in accruing the wisdom and effectiveness that only a long tenure can provide. They want...