Senator urges summer gas tax holiday amid rising prices
Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison called on Congress to suspend the 18.4 cent federal gasoline tax through the summer to ease high pump prices. She noted a past failed roll back and argued for short term relief until prices stabilize, as Midwest prices exceed two dollars a gallon and states consider their own tax pauses.
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Ralph Nader Nominated Green Party Presidential Candidate
Consumer advocate Ralph Nader was chosen as the Green Party’s presidential nominee. He framed the ticket around fair markets, a clean environment, and health care while predicting a strong campaign to push major parties to address his issues. He urged voters not to prejudge and promoted Green values as inclusive and majoritarian.
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Defenders' miscounted plan in four heart contract
Bridge columnist examines a misdefense after West leads clubs. The key is leading a low card from length, which signals an honor and allows East to overtake with the king and set up a decisive diamond ruff, thwarting declarer’s plan.
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IBM to unveil memory doubling tech for servers and devices
IBM plans to reveal Memory Expansion Technology MXT that doubles memory by using a chip between processor and memory. It encodes data to half its size and uses a cache to maintain speed, claiming 10 000 times faster performance than software methods. The MXT targets IBM Neffinity servers with Intel processors and unnamed costs were not released.
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Philip Morris to Buy Nabisco for 15 Billion Dollars
Philip Morris Companies Inc announces an agreement to acquire Nabisco Holdings Corp for 14.9 billion plus debt 4 billion. Nabisco makes Ritz crackers Oreo cookies and Life Savers while Kraft Foods is part of Philip Morris. The deal ends a bidding contest with Carl Icahn and a Danone Cadbury venture.
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