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...Republicans who have opposed health-care reform for months once more mounted an all-out attack. After Democrats in the House Ways and Means Committee tried to build a coalition with tax cuts and other sweeteners, House minority whip Newt Gingrich told colleagues to vote against amendments designed to broaden support for reform. "These guys smell blood," said a top Republican Senate aide. "Republicans believe they are inches away from handing this President a major, major defeat." Some in Clinton's camp, too, would rather fight than compromise. But for now, Clinton is betting on a deal. The Republicans...
...candidates who have its support are playing down the connection. Though several of his regional coordinators are busy forming a Minnesota chapter of the Christian Coalition, even the hard-line Quist is careful to keep his distance. "I have never been in sympathy with Pat Robertson," he insists. To broaden his moral-issues agenda and build bridges to economic conservatives, he prefers to stress his ideas for a middle-class...
...School of Public Health doesn't have a bigalumni donor base, so we hope to broaden thatbase." Menshel says. "So, far things are goingwell...
Paul F. Toner, a Cambridge teacher, said John F. Kennedy Jr.'s presence at campaign appearances will help Kennedy broaden his base of support--at least in some demographic groups...
...trickle-down liberty." Human rights, democracy and trade are "linked inseparably and indivisibly," declared House of Representatives majority leader Richard Gephardt. Clinton's reversal "will encourage China's intransigence," added Senate majority leader George Mitchell. Rather than fight to revoke MFN altogether, these influential Democrats will soon seek to broaden the category of penalized products to exclude from the U.S. about $900 million in goods produced by China's army and its commercial partners. With many in Congress eager to demonstrate their toughness, that proposal could attract majority support. If it does, said Bradley, it could invite retaliation against...