An estimated 22.5 million Americans have tried in-line skating and as many as 99,500 people have wound up in emergency rooms, roughly half with some type of broken bone. Reuters news service, Nov. 27, 1996. The base closes next year. The Army's Fort Sheridan near Chicago officially closed three years ago. The Atlanta Journal and Constitution, Oct. 13, 1996.
Estate taxes can have a huge economic impact.
The estate tax can and should be repealed,' Stephen Moore, director of the fiscal-policy studies at the Cato Institute, told Congress last summer. Leading political players such as Senate Budge Committee Chairman Pete Domenici of New Mexico introduced an array of bills to change the way estates are taxed but the levy of 'envy and class warfare,' as the Heritage Foundation calls it, persists. Insight, Dec. 2, 1996.