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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Though NATO attacks would not begin for another four months, in order to get into Yugoslavia they had to apply for tourist visas--everyone who had applied for visas as humanitarian workers had been denied...
Dole's zinger on guns--and the Bush operation's rapid response--were just a preview to the political cut and thrust that will begin next month, when the Governor is scheduled to wrap up the legislative session in Austin and make his first campaign trips to Iowa and New Hampshire. Frustrated by Bush's dominance of the race, some rival campaigns have dispatched operatives to Texas to scour newspaper clippings and state budget reports, pick over old speeches and offhand remarks, quiz Bush enemies and even some old friends, all in search of information they can use to diminish...
TAXES AND SPENDING If you are a Republican and you have ever raised a tax in your political life, it is sure to be used in a campaign commercial against you. Which is why the admakers for the anybody-but-Bush campaigns will be busy indeed. Their drama will begin in 1997 when Bush offered an ambitious $2.8 billion tax cut that just happened to also include a number of tax increases (one enterprising campaign counts 75). Never mind that Bush can claim credit for signing the largest tax cut in Texas history; rivals will say he merely tacked...
...Freehold, N.J., Mayor Michael Wilson proposed erecting a statue of hometown hero BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN. But plans for the memorial were scrapped last week when the cost became prohibitive. Mayor Wilson revealed that public support was only tepid to begin with...
...this service revolution expands in the field of higher education, even top-tier schools like Harvard soon will begin to feel the pinch. In the meantime, College and University officials ought to use their influence to make Harvard not only an academic leader, but also a "Nordstrom's" of the higher education industry...