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Still, this year's congressional session proves that public opinion and a politically savvy President can prevail -- though only after a succession of hairbreadth escapes. Clinton, says a senior White House official, is "a guy who lies down in front of trains with great frequency and gets up at the last ( minute every time." Every time in 1993, that is; it is going to be a tough act to keep repeating...
...President's earlier projections on reducing the federal work force. That may be overoptimistic, but even considerably smaller savings might enable Clinton to hack his way out of a political tangle. The President has solemnly vowed to slice deeper into the federal deficit -- but how? The hairbreadth margins of his July budget victory indicate that further tax increases and deeper cuts in spending programs are politically undoable. Savings from streamlining the bureaucracy offer a feasible "third option" -- and there does not seem to be a fourth. Anyway, Clinton sold himself to the voters as a man who could make government...
...celestial object bears down on Earth. Reminders of that potential for disaster occur frequently. Early in January, for example, NASA released several radar images of the 6.4-km-long (4-mile) dumbbell-shaped asteroid Toutatis taken when it sped within 3.5 million km (2.2 million miles) of Earth -- a hairbreadth by astronomical standards. And while the warning that the 10-km-wide (6-mile) Comet Swift-Tuttle might slam into Earth in 2126 has now been retracted, it briefly caused genuine concern among many scientists...
Recently, however, there have been stirrings of counterrevolution. Again the early warning signs are in Latin America. In February an obscure Venezuelan army officer, Lieut. Colonel Hugo Chavez Frias, came within a hairbreadth of toppling President Carlos Andres Perez. Three weeks ago, President Alberto Fujimori of Peru pulled off an auto-golpe, or self-coup, and in effect imposed martial...
Although Harvard settled for a 2-2 split overall, the Crimson came a hairbreadth away from beating Houston, a team which was rated in the top 25 until last week...