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Clinton only vaguely outlined his plans to curb spending. He only specifically mentioned cuts from the Pentagon budget, and he ear-marked all of those savings to support a host of new social programs...
...give back some of the money to the poor in the form of a higher earned- income tax credit or some similar device. The Administration's essential argument is that it needs the money, and this is one way to raise it that also promotes energy conservation and helps curb pollution...
...confirmation fight in which his ethical standards were questioned, Meese quickly steered all the resources of the department toward achieving the Reagan Administration's political program: to roll back civil rights gains, crack down on criminal defendants and the rights, they had been awarded by the courts, attack pornographers, curb abortion rights, and slow down enforcement of environmental laws. That agenda, with some refinements, remained in place through the administrations of Meese's successors, Dick Thornburgh and William Barr...
...winter's afternoon. The windows are coated with a viscous film of mud and grit, residue of city snow turned to slush. Wipers, old and misshapen, scrape slowly across the windshield, clearing just enough space for the driver to spot a stout old man waving his hand from the curb. He pulls over. A few words are spoken, an agreement reached. The man and his wife, both wearing dingy overcoats, fur hats and rubber boots, clamber...
...power to make such expenditures is true. But the high price of the settlement demands voluntary disclosure on Healy's part. More shocking to the council than the high price of settlement was Healy's power to conceal it from them, and the council's lack of expertise to curb Healy's power. City Councillor Jonathan s. Myers lamented. "This is not a way for us to do business...