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...phone call reached Rush Limbaugh at his studio shortly before he went on the air at noon, but this time the person on the other end of the line was not Bob, a machinist from Dayton, Ohio, or Dorothy, a housewife from Tucson, Arizona. It was Alan Greenspan, the chairman of the Federal Reserve and the second most powerful man in Washington, calling Limbaugh to lobby for Bill Clinton's $40 billion rescue package for Mexico. The 10-min. chat, which took place four weeks ago, was cordial enough but left the folk hero of the kilohertz unmoved. As Limbaugh...
...name is Grant Hill. A rookie who plays forward for the Detroit Pistons basketball team, Hill has already made N.B.A. history. When fans finished voting last month for the players they wanted to see in the All-Star Game, to be played next Sunday in Phoenix, Arizona, Hill, 22, received more ballots than anyone else. It was the first time ever that a rookie had led the polling. Not even Michael Jordan, to whom Hill is often compared, was the top vote getter during his first year...
Scott Mitcham Sedona, Arizona...
...recent weeks, Stafford had to think again. She put off spending $500,000 on new equipment and adding nine workers to her payroll of 60. "Our customers are reluctant to buy boxes because they are beginning to see their own orders slow,'' says Stafford, president of the Phoenix, Arizona, company. "And that's a big change from what we had been seeing...
...hold their support, Gingrich had to sign on to a proposal by Arizona first-termer John Shadegg. At the Thursday-night meeting in his office, the Speaker promised that on April 15 of next year--tax day, and just six months before the election--Republicans will offer the supermajority as a separate constitutional amendment. Though it's not likely to pass then either, a floor vote should provide priceless ammunition for campaign commercials against Democrats who oppose it. Meanwhile, after their preferred version was defeated in an early vote, virtually all the freshmen lined up to pass the budget amendment...