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DEMOCRATS? WHAT DEMOCRATS? White House chief of staff John Sununu has dropped his practice of polling an informal band of outside political consultants about potential threats from the Democrats. He still surveys these advisers regularly about other topics, but with the Democrats in disarray, the White House no longer fears any strategies they may be devising...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Grapevine: May 7, 1990 | 5/7/1990 | See Source »

...plan had been to unveil education goals at the annual convention of the National Governors' Association later this month. Governors Bill Clinton, an Arkansas Democrat, and Carroll Campbell, a South Carolina Republican, held meetings throughout the fall to work out the details. In early December talks were thrown into disarray when the White House told them Bush wanted to announce the goals himself in the State of the Union. "It had the effect of derailing the process," said one gubernatorial aide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Reading, Writing and Rhetoric | 2/12/1990 | See Source »

...communism," says Felix Rohatyn, the Wall Street investment banker. "That demise may be due to our ideas, but the way we are now exploiting those ideas is not making us competitive with the Europeans and the Japanese. Our cities are really falling apart; our educational system is in great disarray; and in order to finance our budget and trade deficits, we're selling more and more of our businesses. Our Government is unable to govern because it has no money, or it is using the fact that it has no money as an excuse not to govern. Meanwhile, the Japanese...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Freed From Greed? | 1/1/1990 | See Source »

...trained engineer who served as president ofthe Escuela Superior Politecnica del Litoral inthe early 1970s. Parodi said that Ecuador mustnegotiate alternative repayment methods to avoidthrowing its budget into disarray and slashingsocial spending...

Author: By Dhananjai Shivakumar, | Title: Ecuadoran V.P. Speaks on Debt | 11/2/1989 | See Source »

...after the number of protesters multiplied into the tens of thousands, the Politburo announced a newfound willingness to discuss limited reforms. The sudden shift not only indicated a crack in one of the East bloc's most ossified regimes, but also spurred speculation that the ruling party was in disarray -- and that Honecker's days were numbered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: East Germany: Lending an Ear | 10/23/1989 | See Source »

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