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William Kovacs, vice president of environment and regulatory affairs for the Chamber of Commerce, said the reforms involve changing regulations that would cost taxpayers anywhere from $50 to $150 billion. Given this impact, Kovacs said it is only reasonable to expect the EPA to disclose the study on which they are basing their actions...
...heard the news. She was in the hospital, recovering from painful back surgery. "A resident came in and threw the newspaper on the bed," she recalls. The headlines revealed that McCain had received $112,000 in campaign contributions from Charles Keating, the sleazy S&L owner whose collapsed empire cost taxpayers more than $3 billion and wiped out the stockholdings of thousands of small investors. "I guess your husband is not such a great guy after all," the resident told...
...escape hatches to let the turtles swim away. Congress has adopted such a ban, but the WTO forbids it; member nations can't block imports on the basis of the way they are produced. The organization may also eventually forbid American "antidumping" laws that bar the import of low-cost foreign steel. Those laws are important to American unions. The WTO used the same logic in siding with the U.S. against European nations that wanted to prohibit the import of American beef fed with hormones that Europeans believe may be unsafe...
Last week in Los Angeles, the reformers learned just how ornery the current system can be. According to a plan released Tuesday by the L.A. school district, ending social promotion there will take at least four years, could cost hundreds of millions of dollars--and probably would require flunking about half the district's students...
However, the university has undertaken a major effort to beef up campus security. Overtime pay for police, shriek alarms and special seminars on safety have cost over $100,000, said Barbara Pitoniak, a university spokesperson...