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...There would be some tax relief as well. Poor working families with children would benefit from an increase in the "earned income tax credit," though the exact impact of that was unclear. Producers of oil, natural gas and ethanol would get breaks, ostensibly to encourage domestic energy production...
...heart of the measure. "This budget package with its higher taxes will deepen the recession and increase the number of unemployed," he said. Gingrich urged a freeze on discretionary social spending, which would ease pressure on Medicare, and revived the argument for a cut in the capital-gains tax, though that would lose money over the long...
...that was no hallucination. They brought this woman in who had to be carried in. And the shaman sang over her. La-la-la-la-la-la-la. Jamorino heh-heh-heh. The Indian thing, right. La-la-la- la-la-la-luh. It was a healing song -- though I am sure that the woman is no longer with us. Then the guy explained to us that we might see snakes -- the anacondas -- coming toward us. That was fantastic. I went to South America a bunch of times. But no snakes ever came. So I didn't get anything from...
...Louisiana Senate seat held by three-term Democratic incumbent J. Bennett Johnston Jr. But state representative and former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke was also in the primary race as a Republican, running a campaign that played on white resentment over affirmative action and welfare. Though polls gave Johnston about half the vote in the Oct. 6 primary, they also showed Bagert, a state senator, badly trailing Duke. That opened up the possibility of a Nov. 6 runoff between the two front runners. The prospect of the former Klansman becoming the G.O.P.'s standard-bearer made state and national...
...Though there are no documented cases of wild bison infecting cattle with brucellosis (which causes cows to abort their calves), Montana in 1985 decided to fight the disease by letting hunters kill bison that wandered out of Yellowstone National Park. The tactic aroused a national outcry. In the worst slaughter, two winters ago, hunters killed 569 of the park's 2,700 bison...