Word: dealing
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...measure, Gore is proposing to spend a great deal of money. He wants to budget more than $600 billion over the next decade for two new entitlement programs and the expansion of a third: $338 billion for a prescription-drug benefit under Medicare, $200 billion for tax-free accounts to help poor and middle-class people save for retirement and $98 billion to extend health-care coverage to all uninsured children. (That's on top of $344 billion in new spending for education, the environment, defense and other programs.) And the real cost of the new entitlements could...
...compromised men, both pragmatists who will govern in part based on economic realities and the need to push bills though a sharply divided Congress - no matter which party ends up with the nominal majority. But as incomplete and misleading as the cartoons may be, they could have a great deal to say about who wins. If either man succeeds in selling his caricature of the other guy to undecided voters, he will pull ahead, probably for good...
...press made a big deal about the way this author chose to live his life. That just kills me, because I just wish I could be this guy. The author, J.D., is really old now, something like 80 years old, and lives with his third wife, a nurse who is only 30. Peggy says he had some very strange habits, like drinking his own urine, which sounds really gross but is actually just part of some self-cleansing ritual, and she says he practiced Christian Science, Scientology and homeopathy, which is fine with me as long as he doesn...
...biannual ARTCETERA auction benefiting the AIDS Action Committee is a hugely, hugely big deal in the Boston art scene. Two-hundred eighty-nine works by contemporary local artists are on display from Oct. 9 through Oct. 13 at the Boston Center for the Arts, 539 Tremont St., Boston, prior to being auctioned off on the 14th. To get there, take the Orange Line to Back...
...Viana does not so much come out against roads?suicide for any politician?as offer alternative ways to meet the aspirations of Acre?s citizens. He argues that Acre?s many navigable waterways offer a commercial connection to markets without the risk of deforestation. To deal with emergencies, the state is expanding a system of airports in remote villages. Viana is promoting a ?forest economy? that profits from the wilderness without destroying it. In one town, for instance, a condom factory is being built that will provide a market for latex collected by local rubber tappers. By capturing more...