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...Gabby Hayes-Cactus Jack: A reasonably plausible geezer, older than the presidential candidate - comparable to what you have when you put one of your slightly balding tires in the trunk as a spare. Sixty-eight-year-old Pete Domenici of New Mexico has been mentioned as a possible George Bush spare, for example. Truman did it with Alben Barkley...
...said he was not aware of the seven-hour-old National Weather report and had based his go-ahead for the burn on spot forecasts. The National Weather Service, however, insists it had faxed the report to Weaver's office. "This did not have to happen," says Senator Pete Domenici of New Mexico. "I believe, based on common sense, that somebody made a mistake. At first blush, it seems it was the worst of times for a controlled burn." A General Accounting Office investigation is under way. Insurance claims and lawsuits are expected to mount...
...impregnability. Says Julie Collins, whose husband works at the lab: "People up here have the attitude that nothing could ever happen in Los Alamos. They think the government would never let anything happen. No kid is ever kidnapped, because they need us. I can't believe this is happening." Domenici agrees: "Nobody can quite figure out yet what this will do to the morale of the superscience team...
...numbers add up," said Ohio Republican John Kasich, chairman of the House Budget Committee. Moreover, he asserted, they will continue to add up because of conservative assumptions used to create them. His Senate counterpart, New Mexico Republican Pete Domenici, pointed out that those estimates factor in two mild recessions sometime during the next 10 years and include assumptions that "do not contemplate the kind of growth that is actually going to occur." That would imply surpluses even greater than projected--a prospect confirmed by Allen Sinai, chief global economist for Primark Decision Economics, a forecasting firm. Sinai's "baseline" forecast...
Tart-tongued South Carolina Democrat Fritz Hollings, one of Domenici's predecessors as chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, decried all talk of surpluses as "a circus act if I've ever seen one." Said he: "Instead of the deficit and debt going down, they're going up." His point: while the government is no longer borrowing from Social Security, it is still borrowing heavily from trust funds for Medicare, pensions for military and civilian government employees, highway building and other things. Without those nonpublic borrowings, he contended, the government ran a deficit of $127.8 billion last fiscal year...