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...Department of Housing and Urban Development as part of the ongoing tax-cut frenzy, President Clinton today pledged up to $3.5 billion in HUD grants and tax breaks to 106 economically-distressed communities. The biggest winners are three cities and six rural areas designated as "empowerment zones," a scheme designed to lure business to depressed areas first championed by conservative former HUD Secretary Jack Kemp. The urban zones -- Atlanta, Baltimore, Chicago, Detroit, New York and Philadelphia-Camden, N.J. -- stand to receive $100 million each in flexible grants and tax breaks for local businesses, while the rural zones -- Kentucky Highlands...
While the scheme does not actually transfer land, it gives workers part ownership of a very profitable venture. Wilhelmina Visser, whose three sisters and husband also work on the farm, says, "The past gave us nothing. Now we have something to put into our future." Farmer Hall calls it a "win-win situation. The workers have a sense of security, and the farm benefits by loyalty, job satisfaction and greater productivity." In the orchards, women pickers affectionately call him oupa -- grandfather -- behind his back...
...power and privilege, establishing who's boss. The tone of an Altman film -- the desperate milling, the sense of isolation within a crowd, the urgency to no clear end -- is the reflection of life on any movie set and, indeed, in the working lives of most people. When the scheme works, as in MASH and The Player, it does so by giving people something fresh to do and witty to say. Then the bile has an urgent, instructive tang. It's called satire...
...Lehigh is a strong offensive rebounding team, but we don't feel they're as strong defensively," Snowden said after viewing some game film of the Engineers. "We won't change our offensive scheme against them. We plan to go inside and out against them...
...grand scheme of things, getting over the hump from a mediocre team to a good one is exactly what Harvard wants...