Word: expanders
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Asked to name which programs he might be willing to cut to help balance the budget, Gingrich flatly refuses. "I don't want to give people like Tom Foley a single thing to distort and expand into an attack." He does tick off a few items, such as putting Medicaid recipients into managed care and implementing tighter procurement practices at the Pentagon, which he insists could produce $125 billion to $150 billion in savings over five years. That would still be far short of the $700 billion or so that analysts say would have to be cut in the next...
...special interests and eliminating tax loopholes and spending giveaways that favor the few while hurting growth." Shapiro has identified 65 such preferences. "Wipe them out entirely," he says, "and you save $225 billion over five years." Among the programs Shapiro would gut are those that defray airlines' costs to expand terminals and payments to farmers whose commodities sell below set prices. To ensure that Congress doesn't pick and choose -- a process in which the strongest special interests would see their favored scams survive -- Shapiro wants a bipartisan commission whose recommendations Congress would have to accept "in toto...
...Tuesday, the school committee deferred a decision on a proposal allowing Cambridge Rindge and Latin High School to expand their program for distributing birth control devices. The committee instead scheduled a public hearing on November...
...effort to craft a new bill. While the move might seem like a cosmetic bait-and-switch to divert Hillary Clinton's critics, TIME health care writerJanice Castrosays it's a major shift. The next bill, she says, will try to control rising health-care costs, rather than expand coverage for all, and include an up-front funding plan. "Giving Robert Rubin a larger role means the Administration wants to be very pragmatic and figure out how to pay for what it wants to include," Castro says. "If they don't, they're not going to get it through Congress...
Still, the rash of violence poses an enormous test for the peace process. Israel has insisted it will not expand Palestinian self-rule beyond the enclaves in the Gaza Strip and Jericho unless Arafat works harder to ensure Israeli safety by containing Muslim extremists. So far, the P.L.O. chairman has been unwilling to do that. Israelis hope the latest outrages will jolt him into action, but that would be a major departure for Arafat. "The question now," says a U.S. diplomat in Jerusalem, "is whether this man, who has survived by making compromises with his opponents, is capable of wisely...