Word: grounds
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...Clinton to achieve exactly the second-term salvation--if that is the word--that history arranged for Franklin Roosevelt. F.D.R.'s second term represented a fairly dramatic falling off from the brisk exuberance of the first. Roosevelt tried to pack the Supreme Court, with humiliating results. The Great Depression ground on. Abroad, the international order began to disintegrate. America split bitterly over what, if anything, to do about it. All of this set the stage for F.D.R. to transcend his second term's malaise by breaking through precedent to a third term and, as history would have it, moving...
...last year White was tested. His Inner City Church was burned to the ground by arsonists who used kerosene, gunpowder and at least 18 Molotov cocktails. They left behind messages that read DIE NIGGER and DIE NIGGER LOVERS. White isn't too thrilled with Tennesseans' tepid response to Inner City's rebuilding campaign, nor is he happy about insinuations by government agencies that the church itself was involved. What does please him, though, is the support he has received in Wisconsin. So far $300,000 has been raised in the state; one child sent in 99[cents] taped...
...Texas capital of Austin, the hub of a section of the Lone Star State that is studded with 500 software companies and 1,000 high-tech manufacturers such as IBM and South Korea's Samsung. (The electronics giant broke ground last year on a $1.3 billion semiconductor plant with a Texas-size rodeo and hoedown.) Such employers are looking to hire 15,000 people this year, notably experienced programmers and top-level managers. Entry-level slots are also available: high school grads with some technical training can pull down $26,000 to $28,000 a year as technicians at semiconductor...
What we need to do is find that middle ground between valuing these ghosts too much and ignoring them as best we can in the interest of our own sanity and independence. My own solution--and this more a guideline than a rule--has come from using the wisdom of my ghostly Hollis roommate, R.W. Emerson himself. We know how he favored independence and how he wasn't afraid to be creatively inconsistent. As he said (probably around fall term?), "a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: As President Clinton prepares to present a balanced budget plan to Congress on February 6, he finds himself treading on ground that turned to quicksand for Newt Gingrich a year ago. Aides confirmed today that the President proposes to pare $100 billion over five years from Medicare and Medicaid by cutting reimbursements to hospitals, HMOs and doctors. Under the President's plan, spending for the two giant health care programs, which cover 75 million poor, disabled and elderly Americans, would not be allowed to grow faster than about 5 percent annually. "Clinton has to hit these big ticket...