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Shapiro's plan, says Rivlin, "would make life better for the average citizen by taking on the special interests and eliminating tax loopholes and spending giveaways that favor the few while hurting growth." Shapiro has identified 65 such preferences. "Wipe them out entirely," he says, "and you save $225 billion over five years." Among the programs Shapiro would gut are those that defray airlines' costs to expand terminals and payments to farmers whose commodities sell below set prices. To ensure that Congress doesn't pick and choose -- a process in which the strongest special interests would see their favored scams...
...months, the United Nations plans to give $555 million. The U.S. is setting up a jobs program that in theory will put 50,000 Haitians to work by 1995. And the U.S. AID has set aside $140 million for jobs and small loans. Together those packages should help wipe out most of Haiti's debts to international lending institutions, allowing new loans to flow...
...will miss the days when you could take a napkin and wipe off all the grease," said Kevin C. Murphy '97 as he stood in line at a few minutes past midnight to buy his final slices of pizza from the current regime...
...process is even faster with antibiotic resistance than it is for other traits because the drugs wipe out the resistant bacterium's competition. Microbes that would ordinarily have to fight their fellows for space and nourishment suddenly find the way clear to multiply. Says Dr. George Curlin of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases: "The more you use antibiotics, the more rapidly Mother Nature adapts to them...
...Yale University researcher working with the deadly germs was wearing a lab gown, latex gloves and a mask, as required under federal guidelines. He also knew the proper procedure for dealing with a deadly spill: rub every surface with bleach, sterilize all instruments that have been exposed, then wipe everything down again with alcohol. There was just one rule he failed to follow. Having decided the danger was over, he didn't bother to report the accident, and a few days later he left town to visit an old friend in Boston...