Word: reliefs
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...father?s presidency. He doesn?t want the next one called Bush 2. But he also hopes to use the prospect of trouble ahead as a rationale for his proposal to cut taxes by $1.6 trillion over the next 10 years. As he said last month, ?A tax-relief plan for everybody serves as an insurance policy against a potential economic downturn...
...administration's success stories, as unglamorous and even unseemly as the technique may have seemed. The North Koreans have hit desperate times since the collapse of the Soviet Union, and their weapons programs have been widely viewed as a means of extorting aid from the West. But providing food relief may have helped walk Pyongyang away from doing something really stupid, and this has been generally applauded by U.S. allies on North Korea's doorstep. But Congress isn't particularly comfortable about the idea of bailing out a Stalinist basket-case simply because it threatens to go ballistic...
...President, could there be a more humbling path to power than this? The candidate with the perfect bloodlines comes to office amid charges that his is a bastard presidency, sired not by the voters but by the courts. You could almost see the weight of it, the regret and relief and resolve, when Bush rose last Wednesday night with tears in his eyes and promised, "I will work to earn your respect," all but admitting it does not just come with the job when you win this way. But could anyone possibly use this to greater advantage than George...
...will be two brief new, pseudonymous Rowling books coming this winter, based on titles in the Hogwarts library: Quidditch Through the Ages, by Kennilworthy Whisp, and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, by Newt Scamander. Rowling will give the net proceeds to the Harry Potter Fund at Comic Relief U.K., a charity helping children in the developing world...
TIME TO REFINANCE If you bought a house this year, you enjoyed both a hot market and mortgage rates that spiked at nearly 9%. You need some relief--and now may be a good time to think refinance. Although rates will probably continue to ease, some experts suggest refinancing now, while the saving is assured. This is not like the last refinancing boom, in 1992, when homeowners needed at least a 2% differential to make refinancing pay. Lower bank refinance charges have changed the equation...