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...Committee Chairman Dan Rostenkowski. "But it all depends on whether you want to lose courageously or to win. I like to win." In fact, except for various tacked-on goodies and a Democratic edge in generosity toward the poor and middle class, the emerging Administration and Democratic tax bills contain few practical differences. The skirmishing was over who would be able to claim a political victory...
...available condos can be described as Conspicuous Consumption Baroque. Bathrooms, the size of minigyms, will contain more Carrara marble than Michelangelo ever sculpted. Some are sans bidets because, the Najar brothers claim, Americans would just plant flowers in them. In the Longford, ordinary Los Angeles water flows from the mouths of dolphin-shaped taps that are plated with 24-karat gold. Other homey touches: large foyers for art treasures, crystal chandeliers and private screening rooms-and owners will be able to summon, with the press of a button, pet walkers, masseuses, engineers and secretaries. The 31-story L'Evian...
...House and Senate bills are so broad-they reduce planned expenditures for some 200 federal programs, and in the process amend scores of existing laws -that extensive analysis will be required to determine just what they contain. Some provisions, though potentially important, escaped national attention during the debate (see box). Moreover, in the Democratic-controlled House, after Administration supporters won a procedural fight, they produced in a pell-mell rush a substitute for a bill that had made less draconian reductions in social programs than Reagan wanted. Their hastily drafted proposals, which few Congressmen read, were filled with strikeovers, indecipherable...
...Republicans and thus have a larger say in drafting the new districts. In several one-man, one-vote rulings in the early 1960s, however, the Supreme Court decreed that districts within a state must be as nearly equal in population as possible. (An average district should now contain 519,532 people, up from 465,468 in 1970.) Thus the ease with which a state legislature can gerrymander* districts into odd shapes to preserve partisan majorities has diminished greatly. Yet there is still much room for mischief, and both the Democratic and Republican national committees are trying to make sure things...
Lately, subtler forms of warfare have been introduced, including sprays that contain Bt (Bacillus thuringiensis), a bacterium that kills various moth and butterfly larvae. It, too, should be applied early. Another new experimental spray spreads a virus that afflicts the gypsies with fatal wilt disease, so called because the dying caterpillar shrivels into a kind of inverted-V shape. More diabolical are traps scented with sex lures to attract male moths. Scientists have also been distributing different types of insects-wasps, flies, beetles-that prey on gypsy moths at various stages in their life cycle...