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...high price for high-performance apparel: Nike sells its Starter line, which incorporates Dri-Star, a moisture-wicking fabric, at Wal-Mart, and Champion uses its sweat-controlling fiber DuoDry in its C9 products, sold at Target. There's only one thing those makers don't have on their agenda???yet. "I hope they start making dress shirts at some point," says Matesanz...
...that were not enough, now that the once powerful Governor is fighting for his political life, there's little incentive for Democrats to go along with his agenda???and help him improve his fortunes in the process. Indeed, Democrats aren't completely in synch with his new proposals and intend to press for things still on their wish list, such as an inflation provision in the minimum-wage hike, the right to buy cheaper prescription drugs from abroad and higher spending on education and health care for the poor. "We should be on the offensive and not reacting to Arnold...
There is no doubt I gave Congress too heavy an agenda???twelve or 15 important issues the first year I was in. I would have been better off in the public's estimation as well as with Congress if I had narrowed those down to one or two. But it would not have been like me to postpone the other 13 because they were controversial. I was not the warm, backslapping political friend that some members of Congress would have preferred, but I tried to address issues on a professional basis, and they were decided on their merits...
...dash and decisiveness, and its string of astonishing congressional victories, derived from the momentum of the campaign. Reagan entered the White House with a clear-cut set of positions that in his mind (and the minds of many cowed opponents) had been ratified by his sweeping election victory. The agenda???cut social spending, slash taxes, start a big military buildup, voice a stern anti-Soviet line in foreign affairs?was set. The priorities were clear: get the budget and tax cuts through Congress before anything else...
...party been able to find new loyalists to replace the defectors. In part, the Democrats have been the victims of their own success. They have enacted much of the classic liberal agenda???generous welfare plans, unemployment compensation, Social Security, Medicare, civil rights legislation. Some of the beneficiaries of these programs no longer consider themselves to be Democrats. Says Sol Chaikin, president of the International Ladies Garment Workers' Union: "You have a group that has moved out of the proletariat into the broad middle class...