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...over many other issues. The main one is whether to cut a budget-balancing deal with Bill Clinton next month or make it the centerpiece of the fall campaign. At a meeting last week, campaign manager Scott Reed and Republican National Committee chairman Haley Barbour argued forcefully to forgo any agreement with Clinton this year and urged Republicans to campaign hard against the President's spending habits in the fall. Top aides to budget-committee chairmen John Kasich and Pete Domenici argued for a deal, a position believed to be shared by Dole's top legislative aide, Sheila Burke. Some...
Post will now issue a single coupon good for any of its products. The company hopes to save some $200 million in marketing and promotion costs, which will go a long way toward recouping the $60 million in operating profit it will forgo as the result of the $260 million in price cuts...
...think if I've made it this far, it's probably okay to forgo a cup of coffee," says Meg F. Gibson '96. "I thought [the study] was kind of ridiculous...
...people showed up at a huge ballroom in the Omni Shoreham Hotel for a "Valentine's Book Party" for Hillary Clinton. There was no contribution required; in fact, nothing was asked other than that you wait an hour to park your car and check your coat, and forgo dinner and Thursday night Must-See TV (it was a Friends and Seinfeld kind of crowd: no one seemed much interested in the G.O.P. debate). Clinton gave a short talk and sold a huge stack of books...
RIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS, ELAYNE BENNETT, HEAD OF BEST Friends, an organization that encourages schoolgirls to forgo sex, reached into her purse and found a piece of paper that board member Alma Powell had slipped in there a few days before. It turned out to be a check from General Colin Powell providing the major portion of matching funds for a $200,000 challenge grant. "I couldn't believe it, and I almost lost it," confesses Bennett. "Alma gave it to me with so little fanfare...