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...first President Bush's budget was at the printer when congressional Republicans revolted. Bush, they were told, planned to fund expanded health coverage by leaping on one of American politics' "third rails": the fact that the value of employer-provided health benefits is not included in employees' taxable income. Making a portion of these benefits taxable, Bush the Elder reckoned, was a smart way to pay for health care for folks who had none. But G.O.P. leaders were apoplectic. Didn't Bush understand that a tax hike meant political death? The uproar was so swift and furious that White House...
...years Carlucci, a Princeton graduate from Wilkes-Barre, Pa., operated as the ultimate No. 2 man, a fellow who seemed destined to be a deputy: second secretary in the Congo (now Zaïre); assistant director at the Office of Economic Opportunity; deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget; Under Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare; deputy director of the CIA; Deputy Secretary of the Defense Department. In doing so, he developed admiring mentors, among them Caspar Weinberger, his boss at HEW and the Defense Department, and George Shultz, his boss at OMB. Both men had Carlucci...
...Number of employees that the government of Libya plans to lay off to trim the budget and gin up private enterprise...
...Bloggers won't necessarily get rich off their pamphlets. "This is a low-budget operation financed out of our own pockets, so we cannot pay more than a token advance at this stage," says Bellow. "Hopefully that will change as our audience grows. But we do offer a hefty 30% royalty to authors of original work...
...Similarly, the list includes only one solid, medium-budget hit: The Departed, which has taken in more than a quarter-billion dollars worldwide. Among the more specialized fare, Babel, with its complicated structure and polylingual perversity, has totaled only about $24 million in North America but nearly $40 million abroad. Little Miss Sunshine, made for just $8 million, has grossed nearly $60 million at home and $30 million abroad; that's the kind of arithmetic that gets cheers from the Academy (and from Hollywood). The Queen couldn't have cost much more than Sunshine, and it has earned $72 million...