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...election has produced essentially the same scenario. Former Sen. Paul E. Tsongas, born and raised in Lowell, Mass. is a known quantity to the state's voters. Tsongas stands to win by a huge margin, and Republicans in the state seem unlikely to desert Bush in large numbers...
Captain Davis isn't alone. Now that the cold war is over, more than half a million soldiers -- roughly the same number that fought in Desert Storm -- will see their jobs eliminated over five years. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that these cuts will save $103 billion in defense spending. "General Motors is eliminating 74,000 employees over three years," says General Colin Powell, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. "We're doing that many alone from January to September of this year...
...look like the '80s turned inside out, as if the nation had been wearing a reversible raincoat. The gaudy, triumphal colors flashed during the Reagan years are suspect now. Or else they are remembered somewhat wistfully. The full national regalia was last worn when the troops came home from Desert Storm, which seems a while...
...Cold War, Baby Boomers, the Sixties, Disco, the Reagan Years, Desert Storm. A book each month. You don't have to pay until 1999. If you order now, you get special edition of the Al Franken Decade...
Number one, of course, is the bush that burned in the Sinai desert some 3500 years ago, an event that was recorded in the Bible and has been ever since the subject of an inordinate amount of religious interpretation...