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...flirtation with means testing is as political as it is fiscal. Having badly mishandled the "fairness issue" last year, Bush is asking the rich to make some small sacrifices to defuse the issue as he nears re-election. Besides, the White House knows that many Democrats will reflexively balk at the idea of asking seniors (or parents of kids who get but don't need subsidized school lunches) to pay more. House budget chairman Leon Panetta, a California Democrat, seemed to stumble into this trap last week when he warned Darman that the elderly will "raise hell" if the Medicare...
...White Sox took a 1-0 lead in the first inning with the help of a balk by Tom Bolton. With one out, Lance Johnson extended his hitting streak to 13 games with a single and Carlton Fisk walked.The runners advanced on Bolton's balk and FrankThomas hit a sacrifice...
...relocation backlash is just one symptom of the gradually changing attitude toward work. Employees are also beginning to balk at the long office hours that are the legacy of the '80s' corporate retrenchments that pared staffs and deepened the work loads of those who remained behind. Corporate loyalty is further strained by the growing realization that no matter how hard an employee works, no job is truly secure. "People feel 'the hell with it,' " says consultant Harragan. "They've had it with being overworked...
...discontent to reach new heights. "Let him off the hook now," says a White House aide, "and sooner or later he will be back, and we will be too -- back to square one. Drag this out, and maybe, just maybe, Iraqis will become so fed up that they'll balk at the prospect of another long war and take out the fellow who can't seem to live without another one to fight...
...been easy to be an environmentalist: one simply has to claim to be one. Just as middle-class voters routinely condemn "welfare" while opposing cuts in the social programs that constitute such spending, a good portion of the voters who claim they would pay for environmental improvements balk when the bill is presented. If consumers truly insisted on cleaner air in their individual buying and voting decisions, Detroit and Japan would vie to deliver less polluting cars, and it would not take ten years of struggle to amend the Clean...