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...Administration made the task harder by the procedure it adopted. Elementary prudence -- not to mention Clinton's usual habit of seeking to accommodate everybody -- would seem to have dictated trying to bring the major interest groups aboard from the start, at least to the extent of listening to their views and thus giving them a stake in a plan they could feel they had helped shape. Instead, the White House turned the job over to a 511-member task force whose very names were kept secret. When the Administration grudgingly issued a list, the task-force members turned...
Epps said he did not remember specific incidents of addressing students in foreign languages. "I do know smatterings of languages," he said. "I think that [greeting students in other languages] is not a habit of mine...
This is no regular army, with an orderly command and a habit of obedience. All but one or two of the top officers are professionals from the old Yugoslav People's Army, but the ranks are filled by farmers, laborers and shopkeepers fighting for their homes. Many live no more than a few minutes' walk from the front lines. They will not be persuaded to give up these homes and move again...
First-year council representative Cynthia D. Johnson '96 echoed Beys's comments, saying she was tired with the in-house bickering. "Do we make it a habit of being in at least one controversy per meeting?" Johnson asked the council...
First, knee-jerk iconoclasm. The habit of a lifetime is hard to break. The very phrase "the President's economic plan" starts the facial nerves twitching into the formation of a cynical sneer. As proposals for reform of everything under the sun come cascading out of the Administration, the first instinct is to assume there is something wrong with each of them...