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...investment in public schools," said Clinton campaign press secretary Joe Lockhart. TIME's Tamala Edwards notes that although Dole is addressing an issue of great concern to parents, he fails to put a human face on the problem. "There are a lot of parents out there who are fed up with the level of public school education," says Edwards. "The Dole campaign should have encouraged those groups to back him up on this " Instead Dole, a wooden speaker at best, put the issue forth in his habitual Washington-speak. Says Edwards: "Dole will have to let his campaign staff take...
...Greenspan's testimony. "Greenspan is very sensitive to what has happened the last few days on Wall Street and recent economic reports that led him to believe that the economy is not growing as fast as it had been," TIME's Bernard Baumohl reports. "It seems like the Fed now may not raise interest rates in August because inflation remains dormant. It doesn't mean he won't raise rates in the future, but he hasn't seen enough evidence of inflationary pressure building to raise interest rates." The Fed is predicting the economy will grow at a rate between...
...Fed raises rates then, it seems sure that it will dismay both the Republicans, who will have just officially named Bob Dole their candidate, and the Democrats, who will be about to convene and reanoint Bill Clinton. Dole is assailing Clinton for being willing to settle for inadequate growth, as evidenced by the 2.5% 1996 forecast. Dole's advisers think a promise of faster acceleration, to be achieved largely by tax cuts, may be just the thing to bring the President down. Clinton boasts that he has already achieved robust growth--10 million new jobs since his Inauguration...
...press has caught Mad Lie disease, marked by a loss of appetite for the truth and projectile regurgitation of anything fed to it. No one was surprised when the New York Post and the Washington Times reported wild allegations from a slapped-together and unsubstantiated book about the Clintons. But when a formerly immune host such as ABC's David Brinkley succumbed to the infection and gave airtime to the screed's author, retired FBI agent Gary Aldrich, the sickness had reached epidemic proportions...
...been offered $115 million over seven years to re-sign with Orlando. The barrage of deals began after the league and its players agreed last Thursday to a new labor deal that eases player movement. Free agency in baseball has exacerbated problems between small and large market teams and fed fan resentment toward players who don't play up to their extravagant contracts. Can these problems be far behind for the image-conscious NBA now that talk is of option years, instead of pick-and-rolls and boxing out? The Miami Heat led the charge, reportedly signing Washington Bullet forward...