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...will shift gears and go from census data to security data,” he said...
Greenspan's shift provided the green light lawmakers had been waiting for. Already the outlines of the economic stimulus package are clear. The White House and leaders of both parties have agreed with Greenspan's assessment that new spending and tax cuts should total about 1% of the country's annual income, that it should make its effects felt quickly and that it should not threaten to balloon the deficit so much down the road that it immediately raises long-term interest rates. But once you get past the parameters and into the particulars, the two parties in Congress...
...every tale of courage in Afghanistan's bloody history, there is a corresponding one of betrayal, with loyalties that shift like the desert sands. That shift is beginning against the Taliban's leadership. Fissures are appearing in the Taliban ranks between hard-liners and so-called moderates, who privately believe that Mohammed Omar's refusal to hand over terrorist Osama bin Laden is akin to mass suicide. Says Ahmed Rashid, a Pakistani author and expert on the Taliban movement: "The U.S. threat is helping to divide the Taliban." Rashid says the Taliban's "fellow travelers," the tribal leaders...
...Ollie Galam, owner of Executive Clothiers, a men's store in Prospect Heights, Ill., today's hard times have triggered a reappraisal of his salespeople's pay formula. He is considering lowering typical base salaries from $40,000 to $35,000 and offering higher commissions. "We have to shift more of the risk to employees," Galam says. "The owner can't take all of it anymore...
...hoped, spending less of it. An economic slump, made worse by the Sept. 11 terror attacks, is moving employers to shift more health-care costs onto workers, according to a new report released two weeks ago. But some bosses are starting to think their employees might be the best weapon in the war against health-care inflation. Much as 401(k) savings plans have supplanted old-fashioned guaranteed pensions, such consumer-driven health plans aim to shift the responsibility--and risk--of employer health insurance to the rank and file. "We've taught people that when they put down...