Word: granted
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...leader Trent Lott have met with committee chairmen to discuss ways to highlight Clinton's embarrassing China dealings in advance of the President's visit to Beijing in June. The strategy appears to be working. Though the China connection may have nothing to do with Clinton's decision to grant the waiver, it is giving Republicans a kind of traction the Lewinsky scandal never...
...particularly searing in view of his liberal credentials and the fact that he was chairman of the committee when a promising young member named Al Gore was selling the intriguing concept of an "information superhighway." But Dingell is far from alone. Commerce Senators who have reviewed the thousands of grant applications pouring in complain that schools are attempting to use the program to buy everything from carpeting and paint to computers that exceed the power of those at NASA. What's more, lawmakers grouse, why should the Federal Government pay for something many schools would do on their...
...Republicans see this as nothing less than a stealth campaign to enhance Gore's presidential prospects. "This was not to be a political cash-grant program so that Al Gore can run for President," Tauzin complains. Gore's allies insist it is the Republicans who are playing politics. "This is a Clinton and Gore signature item," says former FCC Chairman Hundt. "The divisive, partisan, do-nothing Congress would rather not see something succeed than see it succeed on terms that would be regarded as positive for the Democrats...
Klein's proposed solution appears to be aimed at separating Microsoft's operating system from its applications. In fact, the details of the talks that began emerging early Saturday evening made it clear Klein was looking for concessions that Microsoft was unlikely ever to grant. One demand, according to Microsoft, was that the company hide the Windows opening screen and let anyone in the software industry--except Microsoft--compete to offer a new one to PC makers. Another suggested that Microsoft either remove or turn off the Explorer browser that is even more thoroughly knit into Windows 98 than...
...Weakland, 71 and one of the U.S. episcopate's last unregenerate liberals, his fourth tete-a-tete with John Paul next week may well be his last. Bishops usually retire at 75, and the Pope is unlikely to grant an extension. Made Archbishop by Pope Paul VI at the church's liberal apogee in 1977, Weakland by 1984 induced the Conference of Catholic Bishops to write a pastoral letter calling American poverty a "moral scandal." From then on, almost every year saw a bombshell lobbed at conservatism in general or--so it sometimes seemed--John Paul II in particular. Vatican...