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...having saved $100 million on welfare reform became his national calling card. As the state's economy improved further, he declared, "The rust belt is history." In a breathtaking political resurrection, he was re-elected in 1994 with 61% of the vote, having turned Michigan from the mightiest bastion of the industrial welfare state into the very model of the Republican future...
...school's most vocal conservatives tend to gravitate toward the Dartmouth Review, an independently-funded newspaper which Mace calls "a bastion of not only conservative intellectual thought but also of dignity and tradition, the cloth that binds our society...
...weekend. Clinton's room cost 120 times that price. There is essentially nothing wrong with this, as long as we can afford it morally, meaning that money for hotel rooms does not take funding away from social service programs. America is a land of opportunity and it is a bastion for intellectual debate...
Paradoxically, the VA, notorious as a pork pipeline and bastion of bloated bureaucracy, is at the same time starving for resources. Its medical-programs budget has been declining in real dollars for 16 years. Some congressional mandates restrict access and ration care in often misconceived efforts to keep costs down, while others keep federal dollars flowing to unneeded facilities in Congressmen's districts, driving costs up. Long-forgotten political horse trades, now enshrined in law, make it difficult for the VA to deploy its resources rationally to best meet the real needs of veterans...
...Screen Savers, processed foods and forces the audience to recognize them for what they are--man-made objects which we control; they don't control us. Says Chris Wink, "Modernization has separated us into cubicles, and now we have to buy our way back together. Theater... is the last bastion of direct interaction...