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Candidate statement: "I signed the Rent Stabilization Ballot Initiative question when not a single City Councillor would. I oppose gargantuan construction proposals and I would replace the current city manager. I have a willingness to get things done instead of being a 'showboat' all the time...
...doesn't care about fiscal responsibility," says a Gore adviser about Bradley. "Nobody in the world will pass Bill Bradley's plan--nobody--because it will crowd out all other government spending, including education and military readiness." Economists note that if current government spending simply keeps pace with inflation, the surplus never appears at all. Well, says Bradley spokesman Eric Hauser, "flexibility is part of the final decisions. If economic conditions change, we'll bear that into account." And besides, Hauser adds, "The Gore campaign has no credibility to analyze anyone else's budget numbers when they have...
Cheers to Hughes for declaring himself a skeptic who saw only Goyaesque fantasies and nothing supernatural or divine when he was near death. Inundated as we are by the current wave of religiosity, it is refreshing to hear from an honest and rational man. JEAN AND JACK BROOKHART Huntington Beach, Calif...
...excellent job in presenting both sides of laser eye surgery. As an optometrist, I am not recommending this procedure. History will teach us that the cornea is not a structure we can mess around with. The risks (e.g., current surgical mishaps and potentially devastating long-term complications) are simply not worth it. CLAYTON Y. GUSHIKEN, O.D. Honolulu...
...having to look for new strategies to thrive in the turn-of-the-century economy. Business is booming across America, but small business is not doing--and cannot do--business as usual. Start with the search for workers. Unemployment has dropped nationally from 7.8% in June 1992 to its current 4.2%. Add to that the challenges of meeting tough demands from Big Business customers, avoiding the pitfalls of e-commerce and financing a fledgling firm without losing control, and you've got a climate for small businesses that is at least as challenging, and sometimes as fatal, as a sharp...