Word: carney
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...restore $1.4 billion in proposed cutsin education, crime prevention, environment, housing and job training programs, and to offset them with cuts in construction and government overhead.TIME White House correspondent James Carneysays Clinton's veto grates against a recent presidential promise to balance the budget within 10 years. Now, Carney says, "he runs the risk of looking like he's not really for deficit reduction. It increases the pressure on him to become a player in the deficit-cutting game...
...rough draft of President Clinton's officialpronouncement on affirmative action"leaves the bulk of those programs unchanged," according to James Carney, TIME White House correspondent. As such, the sweeping review ordered up by the President in response to Republican attacks on affirmative action seems likely only to backfire. Designed to assuage the opposition to affirmative action restrictions (a position characterized in the draft as"white male resentment"), while reassuring traditional liberal constituencies, the report, says Carney, "is a lose-lose proposition - the starting point for Republican attacks." President Clinton is expected to unveil the findings in a major speech several...
...whatever, is long past. As Brutus warned us long ago, standing armies are inimical to liberty. Americans are rejecting war as a domestic policy, and with it the centralization of life's most important decisions. All the compulsory programs in the world will not turn back the clock. John Carney Visiting Undergraduate
...deal quietly with despair. And in the moments of silence Americans devote to contemplating the probable causes of the horrors of Oklahoma, another venerable piece of Thoreau's advice should resurface: "It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things." --Reported by Sam Allis/Boston and Nina Burleigh, James Carney and Douglas Waller/Washington
...With reporting by James Carney, John F. Dickerson, Michael Duffy and Karen Tumulty/Washington