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...initiatives are plans to expand surveillance and to ban extremist groups and even the racist music used to spread the xenophobic message. After two years in which the radicals claimed 3,400 attacks, Bonn is battered by charges that it has been halfhearted at best in its efforts to clamp down on the far right...
Consider recent events in Lebanon, which is effectively under Syrian control. Earlier this month, the Israelis displayed relative restraint in responding to rocket assaults on its frontier communities by guerrillas of the militant Shi'ite group Hizballah. Syria eventually put a clamp on the attacks. Significantly, neither side broke away from the Middle East negotiations in Washington...
Clinton's intention is to clamp down on non-U.S. companies that have been illegally shifting their profits abroad. Some companies do this by inflating their transfer prices, which are the amounts they charge their American subsidiaries for goods and services. This scheme boosts the profits of the parent companies back home and reduces the taxable earnings of the domestic affiliates. Clinton's advisers, who extrapolated their numbers from a study by a House Ways and Means subcommittee, are confident that they can generate enormous new revenues by stopping or penalizing those practices...
Even as Basu's hideous death was added to the soaring number of carjackings nationwide, Congress was meeting to discuss how to clamp down on the crime. But it was little solace to her family and friends, mute with grief and occupied with the chores of loss. At W.R. Grace, supervisor Nicholas Spencer cleaned out Basu's desk, packed up a dozen snapshots of Sarina, collected her books and removed her coat from the back of the office door. In a drawer he came upon what was to have been a midday snack -- an orange and some crackers. Three boxes...
...sexual subtext -- Murphy Brown, out-of-the-closet gay militance, condom distribution in the schools, sexual flamboyance in publicly funded art projects, and so on. Dan Quayle and others working the values circuit like to encourage the feeling that the American id is dangerously seeping up through the floorboards: Clamp down the superego...