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...political hands in the White House have understood from the beginning that postponing things is how the Senate operates. Now the White House will have to adopt a new operating style tailored for the more collegial body. "The problem is, our best defense has always been partisanship, and you can't do that in the Senate," says a White House official. "You've got to be more flexible and more willing to bend." The danger here is that the longer things go on, the more uncertain the outlook is for Clinton, the bigger the chance for surprises. And the only...
...computer industry wanted to rock the boat. And no one could alter the course IBM had set, not even the International Standards Organization, which adopted the four-digit date standard in the 1970s. The Pentagon promised to adopt century-friendly dates around 1974, then sat on its hands. Bemer himself wrote the earliest published Y2K warnings--first in 1971, then again in 1979. Greeted by nothing but derision, he retired in 1982. "How do you think I feel about this thing?" says Bemer, now an officer at his own Y2K software firm. "I made it possible to do four digits...
...PLANET: FORESTS, Dec. 14] justifiably charged timber interests, population growth and suburban sprawl with reckless forest destruction. However, you should have included the illegal drug trade as one of the culprits. For years drug cultivators have claimed hundreds of thousands of acres of forest. Environmental organizations should adopt rigorous antidrug policies that compel government accountability and stem lethal drug cultivation. F. ANDY MESSING JR. Executive Director National Defense Council Foundation Alexandria...
Economics is always an inexact science, but Russian economics is about as realistic as SimCity. Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov spent Friday bullying regional governors to adopt his budget, but their skepticism pales against that of the IMF. "The Russian budget is an exercise in virtual reality, with a large blank they're assuming will be filled by the IMF," says TIME Moscow bureau chief Paul Quinn-Judge. "Everything hinges on receiving a massive chunk of aid, but the IMF is unimpressed by this exercise in wishful thinking...
...have been following the flurry of alumnae ideas and suggestions about what new focus Radcliffe might adopt. It's a beguiling game of imagining how, if the opportunity arises, one might spend Radcliffe's $20 million-plus annual income or dispose of its $150 million-plus endowment...