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...Clinton or Blair speaking when the Labour leader says, "The countries that will achieve the highest rates of growth and employment in the new information age are those which make the investments in the new technologies and skills...and whose governments see their role as working with industry to equip people for change." The same similarities surface when Blair talks about "rights and duties going together." Or when he says he wants welfare to be "a hand up, not just a handout." Or when he goes on about charting a political path that "is between and ahead...
...will cost $28 million to renovate Widener and equip it with the proper climate control system. But to date, the University has not raised any of this needed money. Administrators, including President Neil L. Rudenstine, recognize the problem and have vowed to fix it. Rudenstine said: "We'll find away because it has to be done...
...alerted when an ash cloud belches forth. While this could go a long way toward making the skies safer, the business of setting up the instruments is going slowly. Currently, the faa, which funds the project, is devoting only $2 million a year to it, barely enough to equip two volcanoes. At that rate, it would take 275 years before all the world's active peaks were covered...
...federal budget proposal of the Clinton administration, then, is intended to equip the average American with the real opportunities for advancement that one ordinarily finds only in the national mythology. We salute the efforts of the president in increasing the funding for education priorities, but in the future we ask that his budget priorities do more to reflect a more realistic sense of educational justice, and include overcompensation to poor communities struggling to get by in education. For the great majority of Americans, though, and for college students in particular, this budget bodes well...
DETROIT: In a surprise about-face, U.S. automakers agreed to equip cars with switches necessary to turn off airbags. The auto industry had opposed the plan as unworkable, arguing that it would be nearly impossible to install switches in cars already on the road. Instead, they wanted dealers to allow mechanics to disconnect the devices, which have been linked to the deaths of 36 children and 20 adults since 1992. Fearing lawsuits if someone crashed in a car with an airbag disabled by mechanics, dealers responded with a hard push for switches, which they said would remove their liability...