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...state stimulate private industry without making firms dependent on Government handouts? The Bush Administration is torn. Many staff members, at the Commerce and Defense departments believe that robust electronics industries are vital to the national security and should be fostered by the Government. But conservatives led by Budget Director Richard Darman argue with equal vehemence that it is counterproductive for the Government to try to "pick winners and losers" in high tech...
...more remarkable then that the director-writer team of Bob Zemeckis and Bob Gale has created, in the space of just four years, two terrific movies on this subject. Like its predecessor, Back to the Future, Part II does not merely warp time; it twists it, shakes it and stands it on its ear. But as before, the film's technical brilliance is the least of its appeals. Satirically acute, intricately structured and deftly paced, it is at heart stout, good and untainted by easy sentiment...
...Sullivan believed he could still make his mark through lower-echelon appointments, he has since discovered that there too Sununu has the power to thwart him. Robert Fulton, picked by Sullivan to be director of the Family Support Administration, withdrew from consideration after persistent questions from the White House about his philosophy on abortion. So did William Danforth, whom Sullivan wanted to head the NIH. Sullivan says that while there are other reasons the NIH director's job has been hard to fill, including questions about salary and the Institutes' structure, the White House's phone grilling of Danforth "made...
...White House practice on the ground that a jobholder's views should be in line with those of the President. "I will not guarantee those questions will not be asked," he says. "But they're not criteria whereby someone is selected." While passions cool, the search for an NIH director has been temporarily suspended...
...budget," the number crunchers "saved" $1.7 billion. A similar bit of wizardry -- prepaying a $3 billion Pentagon payroll in the 1989 fiscal year -- "reduced" the 1990 deficit by that amount. Bush was in no position to resist the sleight of hand: the legerdemain was originally concocted by his budget director, Richard Darman...