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...keep the deficit from growing larger, Clinton will have to ask the public to make sacrifices to pay for his programs. But he remains reluctant to bite that bullet. For example, Clinton has never said where he expects to find the billions that it would take to provide government medical insurance for everyone not covered by company programs. Slapping a large payroll tax on employers would hurt small businesses and drive up unemployment. And a general tax increase would violate Clinton's pledge not to squeeze the middle class to finance his programs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Much Can He Do? | 11/23/1992 | See Source »

...know who's to blame for the $4 trillion debt, just go look in the mirror." Voters did not recoil from such lines. On the contrary, Perot's experience suggests that Clinton and Bush missed an opportunity to use similar outspokenness in order to develop a mandate for bullet-biting reform...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Lessons of Perot | 11/16/1992 | See Source »

Friedkin doesn't think that his use of violence in "Rampage" is sensationalist. "There are fewer than 30 seconds of violent images in the movie. You never see the actual murders occur, you never see the bullet actually enter someone's body. I don't think you need...

Author: By Sarah C. Dry, | Title: Director Friedkin Confronts Social Issues in Film | 10/29/1992 | See Source »

Knighton drew a .22-cal. revolver out of his belt, jabbed it into her swollen belly and pulled the trigger. The bullet ripped through her unborn baby's head. Schanell managed to stagger to the room she shared with her mother and four siblings in a boardinghouse in one of the oldest, most dangerous neighborhoods of Deerfield Beach. As she collapsed on a bed, Knighton took a nickel from her room, strolled back to the store and calmly bought two Kools...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Children Without Pity | 10/26/1992 | See Source »

CAPTAIN ROBERT MARASCO, WHO pulled the trigger, said the bullet that killed Thai Khac Chuyen made the sound of a "tire puncture" and splattered "blood, skull and bits of brain" on him and the other two Green Berets in the boat. Undaunted, the trio rolled the body of the alleged North Vietnamese double agent into the murky waters off Nha Trang -- and into presumed obscurity. Instead, this 1969 real-life slaying triggered a Vietnam War scandal second only to the My Lai killings, and one of infinitely more complex moral overtones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terminating A Double Agent | 10/19/1992 | See Source »

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