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...FORECAST FOR STOCKTON, CALIFORNIA: MORE crime and less punishment. District Attorney John Phillips has advised police chiefs of San Joaquin County that a budget crunch prevents him from prosecuting most misdemeanors. He faces a $1.1 million, or 22%, cut in his budget on June 30 if Governor Pete Wilson carries out a plan to divert local property-tax revenue to state coffers. Warned Phillips: "We have no choice but to commit remaining resources to the prosecution of the most serious crimes." Among misdemeanors, only drunken driving, domestic violence and resisting arrest will be prosecuted. Phillips may be trying to scare...
...deficit is dropping already because of economic growth, reduced military spending and lower interest rates. At the end of fiscal 1993 on Sept. 30, it might total less than $300 billion, vs. an initial forecast of $322 billion. Still, the need to cut more is endangering Clinton's plan for a $21 billion investment tax credit. Dan Rostenkowski, Congress's reigning strongman on taxes, openly advised the White House to drop it. Press secretary Dee Dee Myers responded, in effect: Maybe...
...ultimately be judged, like deficit reduction and health-care reform -- two goals that will require the greatest skill now that the latest private White House assessment has concluded that the money needed to fix the health-care mess could reach $175 billion, a sum more than twice the initial forecast. "The stimulus fight will look like a picnic compared with health care," says a Clinton aide. "But everything's possible if we include everyone in. On the other hand, nothing's possible if we continue to turn every disagreement into some kind of Quien es mas macho? thing. The President...
...love them," says Lisan L. Goines '95, a Libra, although she doesn't believe in the predictions because they always forecast "good stuff...
Moore Professor of Biological Anthropology Irven' DeVore moderated the panel on human adaptation to environmental change. Scientists on this panel concentrated on the use of archaeological evidence to explain the impact of the earth's climatic changes on past cultures, and to then forecast future impact...