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First, it makes little sense that pork barrel projects like Red Top lead to better performance. Second, no matter how many goodies the big teams get, the smaller teams should be guaranteed some basics. If Harvard is going to have a men's water polo team, for example, it should ensure that the team doesn't have to spend too much time raising its own funds. And regardless of the cost efficiency, all players who win NCAA titles deserve just as much respect and just as many rewards...
...home state of West Virginia with federal office buildings and roads. Reich holds that "there is nothing wrong with being indebted so long as the borrowings are invested in means of enhancing our future wealth." But he agrees that some way must be found to "guard against pork-barrel spending...
...fear. The rare combination of an administration and both houses of Congress controlled by the same party means that the President can be held accountable for a change. But it also means that Clinton must prevent his seductive rhetoric about "infrastructure investments" from being translated by Congress into pork-barrel programs...
...actually widen gaps between the rich and poor. It contends that better-educated parents tend to take advantage of the system more readily than those less informed, by transferring their children to schools with more resources. This has left some worried that school choice will create "bottom-of-the-barrel schools...
...Perot's army is perhaps not as unusual as his behavior this election year. Perot flirted with formally entering the race for months, appearing on television talk shows spinning cracker barrel wisdom about "our nation," "our children," "our problems." He abruptly left the race on the day Bill Clinton accepted his party's nomination, leaving many to think Perot tacitly endorsed what he then called "the revitalized Democratic Party...