Word: failings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...welfare reform bills. TIME White House correspondent Michael Duffy says Panetta is moving quickly to clarify the stakes for the president this year. "If they can deliver on health care and crime and the GATT agreement, they believe they will do well in the fall elections." And if they fail? "The wheels will come off the presidency...
...believe they are inches away from handing this President a major, major defeat." Some in Clinton's camp, too, would rather fight than compromise. But for now, Clinton is betting on a deal. The Republicans may soon seize the moment, since both parties are playing with fire if they fail to find a middle...
Washington is prepared to wait some weeks while sanctions strangle the economy, also watching to see whether a rattled elite decides to work out some skin-saving deal. But increasing numbers of Haitians are convinced that if sanctions fail to dislodge the military, the President's tough posturing may have made invasion inexorable. Even though Clinton has yet to make a decision, there is a growing consensus that he has pushed matters to the point where he cannot afford to back down. "There's almost no way out," said former Ambassador to Haiti Ernest Preeg, "except military intervention...
...require neither salaries nor benefits, most of those fees flow straight to the bottom line; another Consumer Federation survey estimated that banks typically reap 78 cents in profit for every $1 they charge to use the machines. Some go so far as to levy a penalty on customers who fail to use their ATM cards within a 12-month period -- a charge increasingly recommended by banking consultants...
...welfare checks, the reformers are targeting men as well in an attempt to break the pattern of irresponsible behavior on both sides. Clinton proposes that each welfare mother be required to give the name and location of her child's father before she can collect welfare. Men who fail to make payments will have their driver's licenses revoked. Massachusetts has made willful nonpayment a felony punishable by as much as a five-year term in prison. Maine's new welfare law, which threatens to take away the professional and driver's licenses of parents who fall behind on child...