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...ends of Pennsylvania Avenue will continue quarreling about how to pay for Katrina. The conservative Republican Study Committee published a 23-page "Operation Offset" proposing such drastic measures as delaying the Medicare prescription drug program for one year. The White House points to cuts Congress didn't make that Bush proposed back in February, including eliminating or streamlining 150 non-security programs like exchanges with historic whaling and trading partners, which was restored at the behest of the Senate. A House leadership aide said the plan is to make spending cuts down the road, but probably not to do anything...
Meanwhile, the players implemented a 10-day strike just before that season’s Stanley Cup playoffs—one of the first signs of Goodenow’s drastic regime change...
...Even Lee admits that how successfully he integrates his new handset business "will determine the destiny of BenQ." But the reality for BenQ and the other Taiwan tech outfits is that high-risk ventures may offer the best chance at survival. "They realize they have to do something very drastic," says IDC's Pulskamp. For Taiwan, it's take center stage, or else...
...anxiety throughout Haiti," says a Western diplomat in the capital of Port-au-Prince. A Haitian industrialist calls this a "very explosive period." Says he: "People are tired and fed up with this regime." On New Year's Eve, Duvalier tacitly acknowledged the seriousness of the situation by taking drastic action: he fired four members of his "Supercabinet," which ran the day-to-day operations of the government, and then abolished that body. Ministers in charge of the economy, education, foreign affairs and internal security were dismissed in the dramatic shake-up. Also fired was Haiti's tough police chief...
...last Friday, Frankel joked, "Let me be the last to tell you. The rumors are true." A 34-year veteran of the newspaper, Frankel is well regarded by newsmen and is close to Publisher Arthur Ochs ("Punch") Sulzberger, 60. He is described as a cautious editor unlikely to make drastic changes in the newspaper. His two chief deputies will be holdovers from the Rosenthal era: Deputy Managing Editor Arthur Gelb, 62, who is being promoted to managing editor, and Assistant Managing Editor James Greenfield, 62. Deputy Editorial Page Editor Jack Rosenthal, 51 (no relation to Abe), will replace Frankel...