Word: though
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Though they may differ over politics, taxes and who puts out the best video exercise tape, Los Angeles residents seldom disagree about traffic congestion: it is horrific and steadily growing worse. Help may be on the way. This week the Blue Line, the first leg of the city's first light rapid-transit rail system for commuters, will begin running from downtown to Long Beach, 20 miles to the south, with 22 stops along the way. Fare: a flat...
...first of four Haitian leaders to take the air shuttle to exile, Duvalier lives on the Cote d'Azur. Though a court dismissed Haiti's $120 million suit to recover embezzled funds, money isn't everything. Bored with the good life, wife Michele divorced...
Thought to be indestructible after 34 years in power, this senior Western dictator was ousted by his longtime second-in-command, General Andres Rodriguez. The general now lives on a hilltop in friendly Brazil, though his wife moved to Miami without...
...Even though an IRS "grievance examiner" supported the whistle blowers in 1987 and urged action against their oppressors, many of the service's highest officials refused to comply. For four months the examiner's report sat on the desk of IRS deputy commissioner Michael Murphy, the agency's most powerful bureaucrat. Jech eventually moved to a higher IRS post, while Santella was allowed to retire quietly. (He is now a top official at the federal Railroad Retirement Board, where he helps oversee a $7 billion benefits program...
...domestic programs have attracted more criticism -- or a more ferocious defense -- as White House and congressional negotiators try to assemble a $50 billion package of new taxes and spending cuts to reduce the federal deficit. A growing though still small alliance of free-market, suburban Republicans and big-city Democrats is pushing unprecedented changes in the 1990 farm bill that comes to the House floor later this month. The reformers, led by Congressman Dick Armey, a Texas Republican, and Representative Charles Schumer, a New York Democrat, would end federal payments to farmers with adjusted gross incomes...