Word: delay
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...held by early 1994, when A.N.C. leader Nelson Mandela will probably replace De Klerk as President of South Africa. The deal, under which the A.N.C. will call for an end to international sanctions, involves significant concessions from both sides. A < unity government including De Klerk's party would delay pure majority rule for the A.N.C. until 1999. But De Klerk's party in turn has abandoned its dream of writing a scheme for permanent power sharing into the new constitution...
...Administration faces another dilemma: when and in what guise to present the President's health-care-reform plan. "Any way you look at it," says a White House aide, "when health care hits the table, people will see more tax increases on top of those already proposed. We should delay health reform until the economic package passes, but ((Senate majority leader)) George Mitchell wants both plans considered in combination, and the President sees himself as on a mission from God with respect to health care. Neither has clearly thought through the politics...
...problem here is that delay is prudent, but so is Clinton's desire to move swiftly on all fronts. The President routinely quotes F.D.R.'s 1932 observation that "the country needs bold, persistent experimentation," but he rarely completes Roosevelt's thought: "Take a method and try it; if it fails, admit it and try another." But time is not Clinton's best friend. In an era when the citizenry's collective attention span can be measured in nanoseconds (and without a full-scale depression to guarantee patience), the President has confected his best chance to change course. If he fails...
...open your gates when you're trying to control a disease within your borders," insists Republican Representative Tom DeLay of Texas. He is worried that the tab for infected Haitian refugees and other immigrants could land in the taxpayers' lap. According to the government's own estimate, the cost of treating the average AIDS patient from diagnosis to death is $100,000. "Our medical care, social-services net and free public education are a magnet for immigrants," argues Dan Stein, executive director of the Federation for American Immigration Reform, a conservative lobbying group in Washington. "We can't bring people...
...Washington, because they carry the AIDS virus. Ironically, most of them had been infected by American blood products exported to their countries. Under current rules, even a child dying of AIDS could be barred from crossing the border to visit Disneyland. "Let them go to Disneyland in France," DeLay says. "You've got to be hard in situations like this...