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...price was too high or too low: parks, highways and other pork projects served as common currency. As many as 15 lawmakers from peanut-producing states switched when the White House agreed to curb the flow of imported Chinese peanut butter -- at a steep cost to American consumers. Clinton promised to toughen his policy toward Haiti to woo several black lawmakers. One telephone conversation between a Cabinet officer and an undecided lawmaker went like this: "Congressman, I'm sitting here chewing my fingers and wondering what else we can do to win this vote. I know you've talked...
...republic of Yemen has taken a first step from one-man rule toward multiparty democracy. The General People's Congress Party, which governed North Yemen before its 1990 merger with the Marxist South, won a plurality of the 301 parliamentary seats. But in a bid to curb lawlessness and inflation, President Ali Abdullah Saleh promises a coalition government that will include the southern Yemen socialist and fundamentalist parties...
...pledge to curb global warming reassures the Earth Day crowd...
...University Health Services terminated its walk-in clinic in 1990, replacing it with a system of rapid access appointments designed to end patients' hours-long waits. But many students and doctors say that system has failed to curb the problem, leaving many patients disgruntled. They want UHS to embark...
...delicate truce prevails among black gangs, including some affiliated with the Crips and the Bloods, who conduct much of the city's drug business. Arranged among the gangs themselves and nurtured by community groups, the truce is meant to curb the turf wars that cut down members and bystanders alike. Yet gang killings hit a record high last year, accounting for 430 of the city's 1,100 murders, in part because efforts to extend the truce to the Latino gangs of the city's east side have failed. The rising body count is due partly to the popularity...