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...holiday shopping season, apparently to preserve dissipating political momentum for a short-term spending program to stimulate the economy. When the deficit estimates mushroomed in early January, Clinton's aides said the stimulus might have to shrink, though the final amount seems very much in flux. "If we haven't figured out which combination of short-term and long-term economic proposals," said a planner, "then maybe we should just shut...
...they are slowly rebuilding. Says Sylvia Earle, a former chief scientist of the U.S.'s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, who visited the gulf last year: "The reef was like a weedy lot, not a healthy wilderness, but it was green and growing. It was in a state of flux...
Clinton views the Perot vote as similarly in flux, and he intends to secure it. Thus, those of his plans deemed most attractive to Perot's voters, like welfare reform, national service and campaign reform, have been designated high priorities by the President-elect. Welfare reform and national service could be costly, but Clinton says he can push the "big bucks" into the "out years." Campaign reform is even better, a twofer from God. "The Perot people share my view that the system is broke," he says. "Campaign-finance reform is part of the way to begin fixing...
...surface, a rectangular and organized area, with numerous street-signs and helpful drug-pushers; underneath, where its unconscious beats, is a crazed mass of confusion threatening all sense of direction. Start walking down a road and before long the scenery will change, historical periods will be in flux, and your brain thrown into that charged state between curiosity and insanity...
...music than the roar of an international exchange- rate crisis. In his latest orchestration, Soros reaped profits to the tune of $1 billion by staking seven-digit sums of leveraged cash on a future drop in the value of the lira and pound sterling. Amid Europe's ongoing currency flux, Soros could have easily come out a big loser. But when the pound tumbled, his risky triumph delighted investors in the Soros-run Quantum Fund and peeved officials in Western Europe's vulnerable central banks, who were forced to cough up billions to prop up slipping currencies. Perhaps the banks...