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...While they were political opponents, Cyr says he has always been fond of Sullivan...
...Land-Mines Memo. Magaziner was fond of listing the many political obstacles the plan would face in Congress. In early 1993 a memo, entitled simply "Landmines," fully anticipated the most potent arguments made against the plan. The employer mandate, the memo noted, would be criticized for "destroying jobs, driving many small companies into bankruptcy, fueling inflation, compromising competitiveness and forcing people to buy insurance when they may not want to do so." Similarly, it warned, the plan to create health-care alliances would be attacked as a "poor people's pool" and likened to "another layer of government bureaucracy interfering...
...told in portentous tones, was "so feared at the plate that he was once intentionally walked with the bases loaded." Negro League star "Cool Papa" Bell was "so fast he once scored from first on a sacrifice bunt." Chicago Cubs great Ernie Banks was "so fond of playing that he liked to say, 'Let's play two."' It may be a game of finesse, but Baseball swings for the fences on every pitch...
...officials were receptive in August 1993 when an Indonesian investment group named N.V. MUSA Indo-Suriname asked to buy the rights to Suriname's trees. Cash-starved regimes are fond of selling timber concessions because they can put money in a treasury at little immediate cost to the government, while other industries can take years to produce results. Timber operations often ultimately drain more money than they yield by burdening a nation's infrastructure and degrading precious natural assets, but it is easy for a sitting government to ignore these costs because they become a problem only for subsequent administrations...
...seal all the points of attachment. "If we don't get this done this year," Mitchell warns, "it will be well into the next century before we do." He shouldn't put it that way. It sounds like another of those distant target dates that Congress is so fond...