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...determined to regain its former stature as the pre-eminent power in the Persian Gulf. The Iranians are spending $2 billion a year on sophisticated weaponry -- from MiG-29 and Su-24 fighter bombers, to at least two Kilo-class attack submarines, all from Russia. They have a fairly crude chemical-weapons program, and we suspect they may have a biological program. The Iranians also continue their terrorism. In the past few weeks we know they've sent a large number of weapons to Hizballah...
...think it is absolutely essential that we disaggregate the issue of financial aid from the principle here...We ought to move past the crude array of partially relevant arguments to make our antidiscrimination policy take effect...
...think it is absolutely essential that we disaggregate the issue of financial aid from the principle here," he said. "We ought to move past the crude array of partially relevant arguments to make our anti-discrimination policy take effect...
...Tyson Foods, the state's largest business employer. Tyson and his family have contributed heavily to Clinton's campaigns and provided free transportation to the Governor and his wife in company planes -- an example of the frequent chumminess between Southern Governors and major industrialists. Environmentalists generally doubt that any crude payoff is involved. They think Clinton genuinely -- though in their view, mistakenly -- fears that strict environmental regulation will cost the state badly needed employment. Says Tom cKinney, director of Northwest Arkansas Guardianship, an environmental organization: "Jobs are paramount...
...give a quarter to a homeless person because it seems futile would happily give a lot more than that to live again (as we did barely a decade ago) in a society where the sight of a blanket-wrapped beggar is shocking. In a democracy, "government coercion" is a crude misrepresentation of the process by which citizens make a collective decision to achieve together what they cannot achieve individually...