Word: clintons
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Nonetheless, the Clinton team is determined to try. It lives in dread of an NSSE--the Disneyesque abbreviation for a national-security special event that triggers special precautions. But with Y2K happening all across the world, a flood of threats has washed in from every corner of the globe, and suspicious characters have been arrested. There's no shortage of danger out there. The government has conducted drills in 27 cities for an NSSE, but the real strategy is "Raise your defenses and plan for the aftermath." So when the Administration's heavy hitters convened in the basement...
...CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll on Thursday found that 62% of citizens surveyed believe terrorism is likely by New Year's Eve. Yet at the same time, official after official trotted out with reassuring words to soothe the jitters. "The authorities are on a higher level of alert," said President Clinton, the nation's Calmer in Chief, but ordinary people ought to go ahead and party...
Looking to shine some light into the murky medicinal netherworld of online drug sales, the Clinton administration Tuesday proposed that the federal government begin policing cyber-pharmacies In the bricks-and-mortar world, drugstores are regulated by states, but state authorities have had a hard time overseeing sites based outside their jurisdiction. While this isn't a new issue - states have been grappling with the problems posed by mail-order houses for years - the Web offers a new, more enticing arena for the sale of unregulated products. The new FDA commissioner, Dr. Jane Henney, told TIME Washington correspondent Dick Thompson...
Kosovo conflict 1,644 Clinton sex scandal 460 Columbine high school shootings 298 N.Y.S.E. and NASDAQ market action 266 Hurricane Floyd 227 EgyptAir 990 crash 177 Death of John E Kennedy Jr. 166 Tornado season 131 Heaith-care reform 123 Guns...
BACK TO SCHOOL Thanks to a law President Clinton signed last week, employees whose companies pay college expenses now have more time to complete their course work. The legislation extends employer-paid educational assistance that was to run out next May until Jan. 1, 2002. Employees can receive up to $5,250 a year tax-free for their undergraduate expenses, including tuition, books and fees. Companies typically provide the money as a re-imbursement for employees after a course has been completed. About 1.5 million U.S. workers are enrolled under the plan...