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There was even widespread disagreement over the size of the cut made in the runaway deficit. Using calculations supplied by the White House Office of Management and Budget, House leaders claimed that the $968 billion budget was $57.5 billion less than it would have been if current spending programs continued unabated. The Senate declared the total savings next year would be only $55 billion. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, working with projections that in the past have often proved more realistic than OMB'S, said the new budget would save only $39 billion...
AIDS victims and people associated with them experience widespread discrimination, some of it heartless, some of it phobic. In New York City, Dr. Joseph Sonnabend was served with an eviction notice by the co-op board in the building where he practiced. "I treated people with AIDS," he explained. "People in the building didn't like AIDS patients walking through the lobby." In New Orleans, Johnny Greene, a writer, was fired from an editing job with McDermott International Inc. after writing an article for PEOPLE magazine about his own suspected case of AIDS. "They just walked in and said...
...perhaps a third of what it would cost in Hong Kong, but hardly a steal. In some luxury buildings, prices had surged by 45% in six months, fueled by low mortgage rates, expectations among foreign buyers that China's currency will gain against the U.S. dollar and by widespread fear of missing out on this historic bonanza...
...dining hall. Consequently, it’s not hard to find an undergraduate who occasionally—and in many cases routinely—has to shell out cash to eat after missing Harvard’s limited 5-7:15 dinner dining hall hours. Yet just how widespread this problem is has been a matter of speculation until now. A UC report on dinner hours, made after an extensive 270 student phone survey, has shown that 83 percent of students miss dinner at least once or twice a week and the same percentage purchase food outside dining halls after...
...glowing reviews were indeed widespread, but they were always accompanied by that caveat—that Foer was a young kid yet, and that his best work was ahead of him. Most likely true—Foer himself says that he’d hate to fulfill his potential so early in life—but one might expect him to wilt at the immense pressure of unbounded expectation...