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Privately, Clinton Administration officials were ecstatic about Gingrich's comeuppance. The heart of the White House objection to the Republican budget plan is that it favors the rich, as well as "checkbook lobbying," all of which the FEC's charges against Gingrich seemed to buttress. Last week, after three days of negotiation, neither side was making any concessions to reach agreement on a seven-year budget deal. Said Armey: "We have not gotten the President to talk to us in any substantive way. They are still pursuing a strategy of failure." Responded Leon Panetta, White House chief of staff...
Recently he has been working to buttress his flagging influence and image: his approval ratings are in the single digits. He has, for example, made a point of treating several of his less popular appointees to highly public rebukes. He has also tried to cultivate the appearance of robust health, even challenging French President Jacques Chirac to a tennis match (Chirac doesn't play tennis and declined). These moves have been taken as early signs that Yeltsin planned to run in the presidential election next June. But with this latest incident, that possibility seems increasingly remote; even if he were...
...council's small, less glorious competencies--like airport shuttle bus services, concentration fairs and consensual statements on noncontroversial issues such as cuts in student funding--as indicative of its ability to represent the concrete and substantive issues that concern students, no matter how small they might seem at first. Buttress these strengths by consciously taking measures to mend the atrocious reputation of the council: Start campaigns to increase voter turnout for council elections, continue to increase student involvement in local politics with voter registration drives, educate students on the U.C.'s role and request input into how it might evolve...
...barred financial column for a succession of magazines, most recently the two-year-old SmartMoney. The purpose of the column has always been to tap Cramer's knowledge as a stock trader for the benefit of his readers. Always, he gives concrete examples culled from his own portfolio to buttress his points; always, that fact is disclosed...
...container of bile temporarily mislabeled as urine), the admission presented an opening for the defense to press its contention that every step of the investigation has been sloppy. And press it did. Shapiro filed a motion charging investigators with failing to pursue witnesses and physical evidence that might buttress Simpson's claim of innocence...