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...where Pathfinder is being developed: "You're getting back to a scale of spacecraft that we really haven't seen since the early days of the space program." And the rover technology has already been copied by industry for use in places -- like hazardous-waste spill sites -- where people dare...
Eighty years before America was to break with England, patriots, expatriates and repatriates found themselves on either side of the Atlantic; it was a complicated mess that not many writers would dare to make sense of The relentless Mukherjee approaches this situation through the eyes of Hannah, "an ideal correspondent, the perfect reporter," who keeps a diary during her stay in England. Hannah tells the story of a `desponder' (a term she ascribed to those who would go to America to make quick money and a quick name), Dr. Aubrey, who sets up a practice in Boston and charges three...
Clinton, however, has got much better at wooing and arm twisting Democrats, - who, for their part, are getting the message that they dare not bring down their President. And if he still cannot muster a majority of Democrats, as was the case with NAFTA, the President is now willing to reach out to Republicans -- meanwhile dealing enthusiastically for votes from both sides...
...demanding action. The ability of a relatively small group of Senators to come close to strangling the Brady bill again proved that the potential for gridlock still exists. But their failure proves that the fear of voter anger can overcome gridlock. Dole and other G.O.P. leaders did not dare let the public think that Republicans filibustered a popular bill to death. None of which guarantees that Clinton can repeat his successes next session. Congress will reconvene in an election year, which always intensifies partisan maneuvering. The issues will be tougher -- in particular, health care and welfare reform...
...their great wisdom, the founders of this country took every precaution to ensure that their new government would never dare to overstep its bounds. The Anti-Federalists strongly opposed any kind of national authority. Even Jefferson and the Democratic-Republicans, who supported a Federal government, saw it as a kind of necessary evil. After unpleasant experiences with the British, Americans wanted to ensure that governing powers would never infringe on their personal liberties...