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Knowles also defended the restrictions thatwere placed on museum fundraising during thecommittee's review. This ban, staff members havesaid, thwarted efforts to help curb the deficit...
...staff members, who, will leave the museum on December 17, and several supporters of the museum have accused Stager of hampering their fundraising efforts to curb the museum's seven-year cumulative $1 million deficit...
There are compelling reasons for the U.S. to pay attention to China. While the country ran an $18.3 billion trade surplus with the U.S. in 1992, in the process it bought $7.5 billion in U.S. exports, which meant jobs for thousands of Americans. To curb the proliferation of nuclear weapons and missiles, Washington has to entice Beijing into new and better-enforced arms control agreements. China's cooperation will also be essential if any international action -- diplomatic or military -- is taken to halt North Korea's push to develop nuclear weapons. The Clinton Administration hopes that what it calls "enhanced...
...some of the blame on firearms, both houses of Congress adopted potent gun-control measures. Though any of them could be modified or killed when the full crime bill is voted on, they represent a genuine shift in the willingness of Congress -- which made its last serious attempt to curb guns in 1968 -- to deal with the problems of a nation where one person is shot every 14 minutes. "At long last Congress is getting the message," says Jeff Muchnick, legislative director of the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence. "Americans are fed up with the carnage, and they are demanding...
...Mintzer, instructor in medicine,said that psychotherapy, not drugs, has workedmost effectively to curb alcoholism...