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...example, Colorado's recent discriminatory law prompted right-thinking folks to cancel trips to and performances in that state, and even sparked a debate over whether Harvard should turn down a gift of a Colorado ski resort. This type of divestment, however, merely deprives pro-gay rights people and organizations of the opportunity to exercise an influence in the state. it thereby worsens the condition of gays and supporters of gay rights there...
...make sure we get the credit for growth we didn't create. I'm confident the $30 billion "growth package" is doing the trick. But of course the problem with stimulating an already growing economy is that it pushes up inflation. We don't want a "Clinton inflation" to cancel out the "Clinton growth." So we have to raise taxes...
...simple, it's beautiful. Keep up the appearance of activity on two different fronts, but make sure those actions cancel each other out. The economy grows on cue, we get credit, the deficit necessarily falls, we get credit. Maybe next term I'll appoint you Attorney General...
Finally, many economists maintain that Clinton appears to be combining contradictory ideas that will cancel each other out. Paul Ellwood, a pediatric neurologist and health-policy expert who helped develop the managed-care idea, insists that his model cannot work in conjunction with price controls. Says he: "That would be like Yeltsin saying, 'We're going to introduce market forces here in Russia, but we're going to start out with the government setting the prices.' Price controls are not compatible with price competition." In Ellwood's system, costs would be controlled by competition among health-care suppliers to serve...
...endangered in Alaska). They argued that the move was needed to boost the number of caribou and moose on which the wolf packs generally feed. But a growing boycott of Alaskan cruises by some of the very tourists the state had meant to attract forced officials to cancel their plans...