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Dole advisers say Americans are simply unfamiliar with the plan's details. But judging from the Dole math so far, the campaign might hope that voters don't look too closely. To find the $757 billion needed to finance his tax cuts and balance the budget in six years, Dole calls on $147 billion from supply-side activity and an additional $217 billion in spending reductions on top of the $393 billion proposed in the Republican budget last June. But unlike his colleagues in Newt Gingrich's Congress who dared propose cuts in Medicare, Dole does not plan to meddle...
...Hokey Factor: Any high school history teacher will tell you that Boston is laden with history. If you're unfamiliar with the city and are feeling goofy, take the Olde Town Trolley tour. The guides are funny, and the tour takes you to all the important sites. Like Cheers. Afterwards, board the Boston Tea Party ship in Boston Harbor and throw tea over-board (it's all environmentally correct; they haul it in again). In the spring, be sure to take a swan boat ride in the Public Garden--you read about them in Make Way for Ducklings. On both...
Happy Hour is a fine phenomenon, one which is wholly unfamiliar to the college crowd. We go out to drink at 11 p.m., the earliest, and the days of the week on which we do so are normally limited to Thursday through Saturday. That just isn't so for the working world. In the nine-to-five grind, where there are only vocational men and women, the drink is a daily necessity. Centrum every morning. Budweiser every evening...
...enough. In most states the cost of education is controlled by one bureaucracy and the dispensing of financial aid by another; increases in aid almost always lag behind increases in costs. Moreover, the parents of students who use state universities as a gateway into the middle class are often unfamiliar with the process of putting together a financing mechanism. Also, some state-university systems have responded to budget cuts by simply reducing their student body. In 1992 and '93, to cite the most notorious example, the California State University system cut 20,000 slots and the California community-college system...
...Dubrovnik, because it was not equipped to handle the airport's 1930's-era navigational landing system. In addition, the pilots were not properly trained for landing at civilian airports, particularly in Eastern European countries. As a result, the pilots spent the last minutes of their lives dealing with unfamiliar procedures which led to "uncharacteristic mistakes." "There is a sad satisfaction in the Air Force that people are being held accountable for obvious screw-ups," says TIME's Mark Thompson. "And the big heads were the first to roll. Now an officer appointed to comb the results of the investigation...