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Last week, for example, with the aid of last-minute phone calling and arm twisting from the White House, Clinton and his aides persuaded the House to whoop through by heavy margins not only his raise-taxes, cut-spending budget plan but also his program to first spend an additional $16.3 billion to give an immediate boost to the economy. That the heavy Democratic majority in the House would prevail over even united Republican opposition had never been in doubt. That Clinton's lieutenants could prevent damaging defections by conservative Democrats was nowhere near so certain. A number of conservatives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bill Clinton: Breaking Through | 3/29/1993 | See Source »

...thus witness a tragic irony: Gravely ill patients fight their doctors not to treat them, not to spend millions on a futile battle that offers them only the prospect of a Pyrrhic victory. Patients, understanding what blind dogma won't recognize, arm themselves with do-not-resuscitate orders and living wills...

Author: By Benjamin J. Heller, | Title: A Rational Look At Rationing | 3/26/1993 | See Source »

...Republicans throughout the state are looking to build the party and looking toward the HRAC as the active arm of the Republican party at Harvard," Taylor said...

Author: By Sandhya R. Rao, | Title: HRAC Approved by Epps, Hosts Speakers | 3/26/1993 | See Source »

...what big leagues call a "rubber" arm. It just doesn't get tired. If you need a complete game victory, give Christine the ball...

Author: By John C. Ausiello, | Title: Christine Carr: Quiet & Cool | 3/25/1993 | See Source »

Communication between humans and dolphins at Kewalo Basin occurs mostly through a gestural language that borrows some words from American Sign Language. The trainers make the gestures with big, enthusiastic arm movements, asking Phoenix or Akeakamai to follow such commands as "person left Frisbee fetch," which means "bring the Frisbee on the left to the person in the pool," or "surfboard person fetch," in which Akeakamai gently pushes a human volunteer over to the surfboard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Animals Think? | 3/22/1993 | See Source »

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