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Comcast needs a bigger pipeline than conventional cable--called broadband in the industry--to handle that load, and Microsoft can help finance it. "By developing a broadband pipe, connecting it to a state-of-the-art chip and supplying the latest version of software, we will enhance both TV and the PC," says Roberts. To follow its own growth trajectory, Microsoft needs broadband to transmit its multimedia cornucopia of online news, entertainment and shopping. MS money now allows Comcast to accelerate construction of fiber-optic cable to expand high-speed Internet access, develop programs with Microsoft and reduce its debt...
...billion over five years, will go to the Senate floor next week. Other provisions of the bill retained the $500-per-child tax credit and some $32 billion in education tax incentives. But even though the bill is much more Clinton-friendly than the harsher House version, it is likely to face opposition from the Administration for not providing enough tax relief to lower- and middle-income people...
...wanted to build an empire I would be resentful, but I didn't." Gray acknowledges the similarities between his work and Tannen's--up to a point. "I do tend to skim all the best sellers," he admits. "I've heard criticism that I'm just a watered-down version of Deborah Tannen. [But] I was teaching those ideas before I'd heard...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: No more all-night vigils for the Democrats. They?ll be able to get some sleep now that both the House and Senate have overwhelmingly passed a stripped-down, White House-friendly version of the disaster relief bill, leaving Republicans to count their dead after yet another crushing public relations defeat at the hands of the Democratic minority. Said an exultant Kent Conrad, a Democrat from hard-hit North Dakota, of the bill that will provide $5.6 billion in aid for victims of disasters in 35 states: "Many of us wondered if this day was going to come...
...budget negotiations is ending as Democrats and Republicans heat up the fight over specifics of the deal. Although both houses overwhelmingly approved a final, nonbinding outline of an agreement to balance the budget by 2002, cracks in the consensus are appearing as the GOP tries to push through its version of welfare reform. Democrats were crying foul after two Republican-backed provisions passed the House Ways and Means human resources subcommittee. One would cut benefits to disabled noncitizens, while the other would deny minimum wage and workplace protections to some welfare recipients working for the government or nonprofit organizations...