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...coincidentally, have accompanied Brown on his jaunts. Yet businessmen and -women say they remain uneasy with an Administration that seems to understand their needs on the road but is all too willing to criticize -- or tax -- them in order to pursue domestic initiatives. Complains Bruce Josten, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce senior vice president for policy: "One day the President is bashing pharmaceutical companies. The next day he is breaking down doors to sell exports in China and Saudi Arabia. This Administration talks very pro-business in some respects, yet Secretary of Labor ((Robert)) Reich will...
...typical book on tape still represent only a fraction of the hardcover sales (usually 10% or less), the numbers are climbing. The Bridges of Madison County, read by author Robert James Waller, sold 163,000 audio copies. Some 250,000 tapes of John Grisham's latest novel, The Chamber, have been shipped to bookstores thus far. And Rush Limbaugh has sold 300,000 tapes of The Way Things Ought to Be -- not bad for a $17 version of his daily radio show...
...down in the Senate. The move failed by a 61-to-39 vote, with six Republicans defecting from the party line. One Democrat, Richard Shelby of Alabama, jumped ship and voted against the White House position. Clinton praised the Senate, but much of the action in the vaunted upper chamber was downright embarrassing. Among the notable lows: New York's Al D'Amato singing a barnyard song to rally the opposition. Expect a vote on the crime bill tomorrow or Saturday...
...stunning defeat for the Clinton Administration and Democratic leaders in the House of Representatives: the lower chamber refused to consider, by a vote of 225 to 210, the compromise $33.3 billion crime bill its negotiators had painstakingly worked out with the Senate last month. The bill -- which would have authorized money for more police and prisons, banned certain assault-style weapons and enacted a federal "three-strikes-you're-out" sentencing provision -- was defeated on a procedural vote by an unusual coalition of N.R.A.-backed gun-control opponents, Republicans who said the measure contained too much social spending, and black...
...Client," also set in the South, just didn't take the movie-going audience by storm like its predecessor "The Firm." We'll have to see if Grisham's next film, "The Chamber" proves to be any better...