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...bill's rousing bipartisan success, assured since President Clinton's October flip-flop, leaves Republicans with a new problem: How to keep their lead on taxes, which, with the 1998 races looming, has fast become politics' most attractive issue...
...some conservatives to sweep away the graduated income tax altogether. Even as he introduced the Kerrey-Portman bill, Archer, who supports a national sales tax, said it was just a holding measure "until the great day comes when we can abolish the income tax completely." A White House flip-flop on that one would be something...
...Meier had their disagreements about its display--Walsh liked sober, richly colored walls as a background for the art and insisted on "period room" effects for the furniture, whereas Meier wanted neither. The period decor, which was handled by the New York City architect-decorator Thierry Despont, is a flop. But Meier served the art very well, with a series of generously proportioned, plain, high-ceilinged and top-lighted galleries that don't clamor for attention and do create a feeling of undistracted serenity. They recall the enfilade effects of older museums, but Meier has cunningly provided the links between...
...five years earlier; now you can own Chevron and Mobil that way. Disney's move to reinstate direct purchase most likely will have influence outside its industry as well. CEOs of all stripes will probably conclude that it must have good reason--beyond the p.r. pop--for the flip-flop...
...clear. ("Term limits have been successful at bringing new faces into politics. Less clear is whether they're making any practical difference.") And when the paper tries to get hip, the results can be just clumsy. A self-consciously trendy Sunday styles section, launched in 1992, was an embarrassing flop. (It will be relaunched later this year, with a stress on service pieces and fashion...