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...Bush, who caught flak in the primaries for threatening to raise the ghost of the GOP's religious right, tends these days to limit his Bible-thumping to the use of faith-based organizations to do some of the government's work for it. It's a fine line that has mostly kept him out of trouble. The high quotient of religion in Lieberman's stump act, meanwhile, has civil libertarians worrying about separation and Christian conservatives wondering if Lieberman, as a Jew, is getting a free ride where Baptists fear to tread...
...defining their space as anything but an office. The radical Prop L would force live-work lofts to be used as affordable housing and ban dotcom development in areas like the Mission. The much milder Prop K, backed by Mayor Willie Brown and an assortment of business interests, would limit dotcoms in only a couple of neighborhoods--and compensate with a hefty raise in the amount of office space allowed downtown. This, says Brown, "has always been the city that handles and absorbs newcomers...
LIABILITY LAWSUITS He has regularly voted to limit civil damages, saying the system has "become a lottery in which literally a few people do very well but most...don't really get adequately compensated." Critics say his stance is a sop to the insurance industry (his biggest donor...
LIABILITY LAWSUITS Trial lawyers (big donors to the Democrats) give Gore a perfect score: he has opposed nearly every attempt to limit punitive damages. "Gore has always--and I mean always--been a friend to trial lawyers," says the v.p. of the Trial Lawyers of America...
...stocks, merger activity and other factors have altered the makeup of many indexes. This has led to increased trading, leaving investors more prone to taxes on gains. If you can't hold these funds in tax-sheltered accounts, analysts suggest sticking to broader-based ones to limit tax exposure...