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...lightly considered, since armed intervention could end the humanitarian aid effort that is keeping hundreds of thousands of Bosnians alive. But having schooled the Serbs for so long in the idea that it is unwilling to translate threat into action, the West, with Clinton at the fore, faces the crunch: talk of force in Bosnia has cheapened to worthlessness, leaving force itself the only effective option. The prospect for freedom and peace in Bosnia -- and in the Bosnias waiting to happen elsewhere -- demands no less...
...treat the clerical staff. They are not your servants nor are they there to take the blame everytime you screw up. Say "please" and do the little stuff on your own (it won't really hurt your dignity to address that letter yourself) and you will find that, come crunch time, the secretary will drop everything to rush your report to the Federal Express Office at the last possible minute. Behave like a kindergartener and you will confirm every suspicion they have of Harvard graduates. Worse, you will find that the graphics department put your project on lowest priority...
With all these problems, UHS needed dramatic changes. But how much change could it afford? It couldn't hire more doctors and nurses to shorten the first-floor lines. It couldn't move into a bigger building to solve the space crunch. It couldn't computerize its record system without incurring the kind of huge costs that the University would no longer tolerate...
...when the crunch came, most swallowed their doubts and supported the President. "It was a wonderful beginning," Clinton said, extolling the House votes as a "victory for ordinary Americans and for the proposition that this government can work for them again, that we don't have to be mired in gridlock, that we don't have to spend all of our time posturing and dividing and running for cover instead of moving into the future...
...student at the Graduate School of Education, Walker moved to the terraces because of what she now calls a "housing crunch." She lives in a two-bedroom apartment with her daughter and roommate Tom Hunsdorfer...