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...scheduled press conference to launch a petition drive to ban almost all handguns in the city. "Up until the past couple of months we've been doing what the N.R.A. wanted, and look where it's got us," says Dan Ullrich, spokesman for the Campaign for a Better Milwaukee. "Halfway measures haven't worked in other cities." The group hopes to collect the necessary . 20,300 signatures by mid-January, forcing the city council either to pass the ban or place it on the ballot in either April or November...
...squad, the Interstate League's youngest team, with an average age of 20, is responding too: halfway through this season, the Penguins have won more games than in all of last year. Says center Alexander Kharlamov, 18: "This is the first time most of us have felt this kind of excitement from the spectators." There may be a more fundamental explanation, however, for the upswing. The players, who on paper are soldiers in the army, this year are being paid up to $12,000 a season. Last year the army never managed to send out any paychecks...
...Clinton "won't seriously fund treatment because of budget constraints," says Kerry, "he should invoke the national emergency provision that would allow us to fund what's needed off-budget. It's simply unacceptable -- and counterproductive -- to plead poverty on this. Doing it only halfway won't get the job done, and it will erode support for what we actually...
...management method seems to be working. Says executive vice president Bill Hoglund: "We're only about halfway where we want to be. On a scale of 1 to 10, we're about 5. But compared to where we were, we're about...
Hosokawa was cautious about the implications of his Diet victory. "There is a saying that 99 miles are only halfway for a traveler on a 100-mile journey," he said. "We're not halfway there yet." Political analysts contend, however, that change is irrevocably taking hold. "There is a progressive unraveling of the old system," says Kent Calder, director of the U.S.-Japan program at Princeton University. "I think we are in a reinforcing cycle of change, where one thing leads to another and unlocks new possibilities. It is a building revolution...