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...cents each over the current level of $4.25 an hour. But even as he released the plan, the Administration braced for what will surely be a bloody battle. House Speaker Newt Gingrich -- a former economics professor -- said bluntly, "I personally am very skeptical about it and think it will destroy jobs, especially for minority teenagers." House Majority Leader Dick Armey of Texas has said he would like to abolish the minimum wage altogether. "The White House is looking to appeal to its base and to Democrats who have wandered," saysTIME Washington correspondent Suneel Ratan. "They are trying to send...
Geary reports that plans to strengthen the dikes for just such an emergency have been gathering dust for 20 years. Grass-roots environmentalists protested that heightening the dikes would destroy the natural landscape, and politicians refused to pay for costlier alternatives...
...dumb'' bombs, puts fewer pilots at risk and dramatically reduces the tonnage of fuel and weapons that has to be shipped to a war zone. Indeed, the Pentagon was working on the top-secret Tri-Service Standoff Attack Missile (dubbed Tee-Sam), which would allow the B-2 to destroy targets from 100 miles away with stiletto precision. Starting in 1996, the military declared in 1992, the B-2, armed with Tee- Sams, would be ready to strike anywhere, anytime...
...Marietta, the Bank of America, the National Security Agency and Chiquita Banana. At one point, two MOD members can be heard in a Secret Service wiretap hatching a scheme to create their own bogus credit bureau that would -- for the right price -- alter people's credit histories. "We can destroy people's lives," they boasted. "Or make them look like saints...
...them" is really "us." Millions of Americans are only one disaster away from poverty. A divorce, an arrest, a disabling illness can destroy a working family's financial resources. It's fine to be charmed by Newt's revolution -- some of his prescriptions deserve support -- but we should think twice before we cut. "Poverty," said that ancient futurist Aristotle, "is the parent of crime and revolution" -- a wise warning about an upheaval far different from the one Gingrich has in mind...