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...Haiti and Kuwait -- the chief reasons cited by military brass in acknowledging an eroding preparedness. The package is designed to go in tandem with his decision last month to bolster the "quality of life" for military families, including a 2 percent pay raise. Far from making Pentagon coffers flush,TIME Defense correspondent Mark Thompsonpoints out, Clinton's new move simply takes a bite out of a projected $40 billion budget shortfall. "It reduces the pain, but it does not add to the pleasure," Thompson says. "It's not buying the Pentagon anything. But plainly the President from the start...
...That flush feeling you had earlier this year was not just spring fever. In a trend many economists see continuing, personal income in the U.S. rose during the second quarter of this year. The Commerce Department says income jumped 1.9% from April through June, compared with a 1.3% hike in the first quarter of '94. More important, your buying power increased, as prices in the U.S. went up just seven-tenths of 1% in the spring. California tops a list of 11 states that posted higher-than-average income growth during the quarter, while South Dakota was the only state...
...book about bridge, the man who invented the trick gave it a name. It's called the Fishhead Coup, and those who understand it say the move is the bridge equivalent of a royal flush. To pull it off takes unusual cunning. To invent it, a person would need an even rarer combination of intelligence and guile...
...student, who requested anonymity, said she wrote a note to her roommate which read: "Warning: The toilet does not flush. I found out too late...
...political animals, the Bush brothers are strikingly similar. Both cut their teeth in Dad's campaigns; both are flush with money gathered with the help of the decades-old Bush fund-raising apparatus that covers all 50 states; both use operatives from their father's previous campaigns. On the issues their campaigns are virtual carbon copies. They consider the No. 1 issue to be crime, especially juvenile crime. They call for longer sentences and expansion of their states' overcrowded jails. They champion the right of local communities to run their own school systems. They say welfare should...