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...watching two years' work go down the drain in about 48 hours, Ira Magaziner, the architect of Bill Clinton's health-care reform plan, had a strangely delighted air at the White House senior staff meeting last Thursday morning. The afternoon before, the Business Roundtable, a group of corporate executives, had supported the alternative plan drafted by Congressman Jim Cooper of Tennessee. In a few hours, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce would use harsher language to reject the Clinton approach. Earlier in the week, Clinton offered to trade away two key elements of Magaziner's design in order...
...growing number of people on the globe is a problem as urgent as the Cold War once was, Wirth said. The population spiral will increase the gap between the rich and poor and drain the earth's resources, he said...
Legislators can probably expect about $5billion extra to spend on social programs fromcutting the supercollider, but even the process ofterminating the project will be a drain on theTreasury...
...while the new law brings more opportunity for professors considering their futures in academic life, it also brings the possibility of an aging faculty, of a financial drain on University resources and of limited tenure openings for rising junior faculty...
When the issues are genetic screening and abortion, ethical values often clash with practicality and parental rights. With health costs going out of control, there will be increasing pressure on parents not to bring to term a child that will be a drain on the medical system. Those who doubt that a eugenics movement reminiscent of the Nazi era could get started in this day and age have only to look at the example of China, which last month announced a program of abortions, forced sterilization and marriage bans to "avoid new births of inferior quality and heighten the standards...