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...successful whip who rounds up the troops and keeps them in the party line, he would have used all his energy to support the deal Bush, Dole and minority leader Bob Michel worked out. But Gingrich had a different success in mind; faced with the devil's bargain of raising taxes to reduce the deficit, Gingrich declared war on his own party's President. In a stunning vote, 105 House Republicans sided with Gingrich to defeat the plan; only 71 voted with Bush. "I was astonished that they didn't understand we were the party of no taxes," Gingrich says...
...prove her point, Allen has asked that the Crimson's October 11 staff editorial be published in the Senate Record. The editorial urges changes in the present policy that offers full financial funding to select minorities regardless of need, while whites and Asian Americans receive no such bargain...
Most shoppers, however, won't make any big purchases this year until they get a bargain. Last week Shelley Draheim and her husband Jim looked longingly at a $300 NordicTrack exerciser but said they probably would not buy the machine unless it goes on sale. "It's something that would be good for us long term," says Draheim, a research director for the Chamber of Commerce in Omaha, Nebraska. "But what we spend on it is money that doesn't buy groceries." Also watching every buck is Anne Branigan, a Chamber of Commerce colleague whose husband recently lost...
...1980s were frighteningly careless. Things were so bad, in fact, that federal agents raided the facility in 1989 and eventually shut it down. A grand jury later voted to indict plant operator Rockwell International for violating environmental laws. (Federal prosecutors and Rockwell agreed in the end to a plea bargain: the most serious charges were dropped, and the company paid an $18.5 million fine...
Harvard planning and Real Estate Associate Vice President Kathy A. Spiegelman proposed the bargain in a September 21 letter...