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...relief suggestion comes at a time when the government is trying to rein in a budget deficit that amounted to 3.3% of GDP last year. Although the fiscal outlook has improved lately due to a pickup in the local economy, many officials and politicians say a sweeping overhaul of Hong Kong's tax system, such as introduction of a sales tax, is needed?making it harder to sell a reform that looks like tax relief for gamblers. In September, Financial Secretary Henry Tang said he might consider the reduction if it could be clearly demonstrated that tax revenues would...
AVAILABILITY Now; free from some relief agencies and clinics...
REPORTED KILLED. MARGARET HASSAN, 59, director of the relief group Care International in Iraq; apparently by gunmen who abducted her in Baghdad on Oct. 19; as reported by her family and Arabic news network al-Jazeera, which received a video that appeared to show her being shot in the head. The Irish-born aid worker fell in love with Iraq after moving there with her Iraqi-born husband in 1972. Through Saddam Hussein's rule and Gulf War bombings she stayed, learning Arabic and converting to Islam. She became a spokeswoman for Iraqi children suffering in the wake...
...kinder; it remains a knee-jarring scramble down to where the Grose River jostles between boulders, and, just as Caley's men did with homemade twine, the team has to lower its packs on rope where the rock face is steepest. The cool Grose waters provide only short relief before a lung-bursting ascent to the top, where Caley and his men tried to quench their burning thirst with native currants...
...investors can breathe a sigh of relief: only 26 percent of the MBA Class of ’04 headed to Wall Street. At least 30 percent of the Business School’s grads took securities industry jobs in 2000, 2001 and 2002—and leading market indices fell all three years...