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Clinton cuts foreign aid $4.7 billion. Kasich cuts it $13.6 billion. Clinton freezes subsidies to the arts. Kasich slices them in half. He also kills all mass-transit operating subsidies and other subsidies to railroads and airports. By eliminating all Clinton's tax increases, he gives the typical median-income household an annual break of $173 and the typical $200,000-plus household a break...
Keno loved trains. When he was 12, his family left their native Trinidad to live in New York City -- and Keno became enthralled with the subway system. "He'd never seen anything like it before," says his sister Melissa, 13. He collected transit uniform shirts and equipment, read motormen's training manuals, drew pictures of the different trains and rode the subway for hours ; at a time. At home Keno would sit at a desk and, using a stapler as a make- believe throttle, pretend to drive through routes, calling out stops and taking on passengers. "For hours he would...
Clinton included tax breaks for new firms and new investments in plant and equipment. He asked for more spending for infrastructure (highways, mass transit, a network to link up public facilities)--the kind of thing that will make the U.S. more productive in the long run. He included $3 billion here for energy research and development and $5.75 billion there for tax incentives for those who would invest in low-income housing...
...Hispanic American to win the Pulitzer Prize for his second novel. The Mambo kings Play Songs of Love. Born in New York City to Cuban immigrant parents, Hijuelos attended City College where his memos included Donald Barthelme and Susan Sontag. Hijuelos held a low-level job with a mass transit advertising agency before quitting in 1980, when his first novel, Our House in the Last World, was published. He spoke recently with The Crimson about his new novel. The fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montez O'Brien...
...called shortage occupations. About 100 workers have participated since the scheme began in 1990. He also contends that federal employees ride free on Washington's subway while everyone else pays. Actually, the Metro system has deals with some public and private employers to subsidize workers' use of rapid transit. A majority of the roughly 50,000 riders who participate work in private enterprise...