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...effective at destroying equipment and munitions, landed close to where Hizballah had been firing a mortar at a nearby Israeli ground unit. The second area, located in the U.N. base itself, was hit mainly by "proximity-fuzed" shells, which are designed to detonate above the ground so as to widen the radius of impact. The use of that ordnance, which is especially effective at killing and maiming, explains why an exact count of the dead has never been made: there were simply too many shredded body parts...
...onset of the second quarter, Bevilacqua score the third goal of what would be a four-goal performance to widen the Crimson's lead...
...that's true, the flat tax would collect less money than the current system, at least in the short term. Robert Hall, a conservative Stanford University economist, who with his colleague Alvin Rabushka literally wrote the book on the subject (The Flat Tax, 1985), estimates that Forbes' scheme would widen the federal deficit by $182 billion a year--just when a majority of voters in both parties say they want a balanced budget before new tax cuts. Forbes, a believer in the quasi-theology called supply-side economics, assumes that tax cuts, even when financed by federal borrowing, will generate...
...Democratic nomination in 1992 and was savaged by candidate Bill Clinton for proposing to cut taxes for the rich and raise them for the middle class. Those same arguments, plus the fact that a 17% rate system would raise less revenue than the current tax system and thus widen the budget deficit, will make the Forbes plan increasingly controversial...
...another part of the world, it would have been a straightforward public-works project. A highway was too narrow to handle the increasing flow of traffic, so the authorities brought in heavy equipment to widen it. Partway through the job, however, a road-leveling tractor uncovered the opening to a cave no one knew was there. Work came to an immediate halt, and within hours a scientific swat team descended on the site to study...