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...wages and giving away jobs to foreigners willing to accept low wages. "Employers should be able to obtain skilled foreign workers," the Senator says, "but not with an abandon that leaves 1.1 million skilled young Americans chiseled out of jobs." He dismisses criticism of the bill as "a very deft operation of near hysteria" and asserts, "We're not trying to do one damn thing to [hurt] American competitiveness...
...audience more receptive listeners--somewhat like Dante in Hell, bearing witness to final testimonials and recriminations. But unlike Dante, Masters was fond of his kin; no one is damned. The audience is asked not to judge folk for their failings but to pay attention to the actors' performances and deft versatility. Engel makes acting an integral factor in how memory is constructed...
...Moor's deft way with words seems to be an inheritance from his mother, whose odd way of speaking he lovingly records. Here she instructs an artist to paint her children's nursery with episodes drawn from Hollywood cartoons: "Give me boulders that only temporarily flattofy you when they drop down on your head, bombs that give black faces only, and running-over-empty-air-until-you-looko down. Give me knottofied-up rifle barrels, and bathfuls of big gold coins. Never mind about harps and angels, forget all those stinking gardens; for my kiddies, this is the Paradise...
...First Lady in modern politics -- on a day when a Senate committee was grilling one of her former Little Rock legal colleagues about Mrs. Clinton's Whitewater work -- he went the reporter one better, saying his wife was the most controversial First Lady since Eleanor Roosevelt. It was a deft and flattering reference to a First Lady who was famous for her blunt candor and who was harshly criticized for her unusually high visibility during FDR's administration. As for the budget, Clinton said that if congressional Republicans would only put off resolving key policy differences on Medicare, Medicaid...
...constitutional and legal crisis" between the branches if Rubin continues to jigger the federal books without congressional approval. So far, the Treasury Secretary has foiled the G.O.P., which has refused to raise the federal debt limit until it gets a budget deal, by making a series of deft accounting moves that have kept the debt just under the authorized ceiling of $4.9 trillion...