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...team yielded the goal and it engaged in a very physical, sloppy ball possession game with the Lions. It also failed to convert on a breakaway with five minutes left, but when you've outscored your opponents by three touchdowns after five games, you can overlook such things once in a while...
...When it was 11 vs. 11 we clearly were the more dominant team, but I wanted more production," Locker said. "A 1-0 lead was a disappointment to met--those are goal-scoring chances that we need to convert...
...hospital stay, and $100 a year plus 20% of doctors' bills and outpatient services--until the first several thousand dollars of seniors' health-care expenses each year would be uninsured. ("If necessary," Cato says grudgingly, there could be a subsidy for lower-income elderly folk.) In essence, this would convert Medicare into an insurance program for very large, "catastrophic" health-care expenses only. The theory is that people will watch every penny when they are paying the bills themselves...
...July 1993 when he restricted the ability of federal investigators to review documents in Vince Foster's office in the days after Foster's apparent suicide. "I'm proud of my conduct," Nussbaum declared at one point. To which Alabama's Richard Shelby, a former Democrat, replied with a convert's contempt for his old faith: "You're probably the only person in America who's proud of your conduct...
...children. "I believe we ought to have a continued partnership," the President told the National Governors' Association in Burlington, Vermont. "I am opposed to welfare reform that is really just a mask forcongressional budget cutting." Dole, who spoke earlier, said he would introduce legislation by week's end to convert Aid to Families with Dependent Children and some child care and job training programs into block grants. TIME's Sam Allis says Dole's plan drew enthusiastic support today from all 30 GOP governors. "Clinton tried to sweeten the pot significantly," Allis says. "But where he sees a federal role...