Word: bets
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...also paid for about $10 billion of extra goodies in Clinton?s 1998 budget. It was a win-win that turned, with a bang of Trent Lott?s gavel, into a lose-lose. And although Newt Gingrich is suddenly making noises about antitobacco in the House, you can bet that whatever emerges from the Republican leadership will be carefully crafted to give Clinton neither money nor plaudits enough to sustain the appearance of second-term activism that Clinton so desperately wants. "All he?s got left is the China trip," says Branegan. It doesn?t get any more...
...Baptist statement of faith, last amended 35 years ago, that will define the proper "biblical" family. The prescription bound to provoke the most attention states that a good Christian wife "is to submit graciously to the servant leadership of her husband." Passage of the amendment seems a good bet...
...think I'll pass. After all, there are plenty of ways to reduce my cholesterol without resorting to drugs. You can bet Merck will be doing further studies to see if people like me would be wise to start taking preventive lovastatin. But for now, I think I'll try to run an extra mile or two each week and cut more saturated fat from my diet. A pill may be easier, but I'd just as soon avoid...
...Baptist statement of faith, last amended 35 years ago, that will define the proper "biblical" family. The prescription bound to provoke the most attention states that a good Christian wife "is to submit graciously to the servant leadership of her husband." Passage of the amendment seems a good bet...
...Clinton's line got a lot of applause," says TIME White House correspondent Jay Branegan, "but I bet there were plenty of guffaws too." In terms of party lines, the census issue is simple: The bulk of those who go uncounted under the current system are blacks, Hispanics and the poor -- largely Democratic voters. If the census were adjusted to count more of them, those minorities would get more congressmen, more federal funding and more political attention. And President Clinton wants to be the one to give it to them...