Word: basin
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After local press reported Saturday that a broken pipe in Newton had been spilling raw sewage into the river for several weeks, many boathouses shut down until they had ascertained the safety of the lower basin...
...good behavior, said the President, but the only pragmatic solution given Beijing's growing military and economic strength in Asia. Vital security and economic interests make it essential for the U.S. to maintain a relationship with China and its booming market, Clinton said in a speech to the Pacific Basin Economic Council, an Asian trade group...
There was a fund raiser for the controversial F.D.R Memorial the other day that traveled all over Washington and included real Roosevelt martinis (3 to 1) at the Tidal Basin construction site. It ended with a private White House dinner of lamb and artichokes at $10,000 a plate and grossed about half a million. Bill and Hillary Clinton were eloquent in praise of their heroes Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt to their black-tie audience of 200. Actors Jane Alexander and Edward Herrmann, who had played the Roosevelts on television, gave readings, and there was a scratchy old recording...
Forbes' rise in the polls has led to a case of me-tooism among his G.O.P. rivals, several of whom quickly announced their flat-tax plans last week even while attacking Forbes' scheme as favoring, in Pat Buchanan's barb, "the boys down at the yacht basin." Buchanan and Senator Phil Gramm offered single-rate tax plans that would retain the popular deductions for mortgage interest and charitable contributions and would tax investment income. A long-shot candidate, self-made tire magnate Morry Taylor, asks why Forbes would charge him nothing on the $15 million he collected last year...
...denounced Steve Forbes' flat-tax plan, for example, as something "drafted on the back of a menu . . . with the boys down at the yacht basin." But his own tax plan would cut inheritance and capital-gains taxes as well as income taxes for the wealthy. The legendary rationale for this kind of tax cut is that if you pump enough wealth uphill, sooner or later some of this money will trickle down to ordinary people in the form of decent-paying jobs. But this can't work when there are, as Buchanan himself says, "two economies" instead of one. Downsizing...