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...Clinton team has sought to dampen expectations in Haiti while it works out a new policy. To soften criticism that the U.S. was violating international law by forcing refugees back into the arms of their persecutors -- a practice candidate Clinton had denounced as "a blow to America's moral authority in defending the rights of refugees" -- the new Administration said it would open up new refugee-processing centers around the country. But Clinton recognizes that no mere modifications of asylum rules, however humanely intended, can permanently stop the wave of immigrants to U.S. shores. It is much harder -- and much...
...environmental supporters why he failed to deliver on commitments made during the campaign. Just as ideologues during 12 years of Republican Administrations were thwarted by the courts and Congress from unilaterally rolling back environmental protection, Brundtland's situation illustrates how the workings of a modern democracy can also dampen the ambitions of true believers occupying the highest positions of power...
...less fortunate crowded into a standing area farther back, where the fresh dew that was quickly trampled into a boggy swamp did little to dampen the mood of Democratic revellers...
Aware of the dilemma, Clinton has been trying to dampen expectations about what he can achieve in his first 100 days -- or even his first 1,000 days -- in the Oval Office. Clinton declared last week that "the American people understand that these problems are of long duration and there won't be any overnight miracles. But I think they expect aggressive and prompt action," he added, "and I'm going to give it to them...
...became impossible. Europe's exchange-rate mechanism exploded, and somewhere in the rubble lies Maastricht. What happened? The ERM tied E.C. currencies to the German mark. But much of Europe -- notably Britain and Italy -- was unable to keep up. The German central bank had jacked up interest rates to dampen the inflation caused by huge deficit spending on eastern Germany. The weaker E.C. countries had a choice: a) match Germany's high interest rates and risk both deep recession and political suicide; or b) drop out of the ERM. Not surprisingly, they chose...