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...most fuel-efficient form of passenger transportation, achieving nearly 10 times the number of passenger-miles per gallon as cars. Yet the U.S. is stuck with the pathetically inadequate and ineffecient Amtrak system, the rolling laughingstock of the industrial world. Despite large subsidies, Amtrak remains hamstrung by union featherbedding, bureaucratic stupidity, and the inability to compete with other modes of transport...
...construct a New World Order. The U.N. will continue to be effective, however, only so long as no proposed action runs counter to the interests of any of the five permanent members of the Security Council (the U.S., Britain, France, the Soviet Union and China). Otherwise, it will be hamstrung again by vetoes...
...Hamstrung by his own contribution limit, Chiles had hoped to save his money to battle Martinez in the general election. Instead, he had to rush his first major campaign ad onto the air last week. Even with his $100 limit, Chiles has raised more than $1.7 million, but Nelson's receipts total $5.2 million and Martinez's are expected to top $12 million. "If Chiles wins the primary, he may be broke against Martinez in November," says political analyst Robert Joffee. "And then his noble crusade could be doomed...
...arrows ((began)) flying, front, back, sideways." Try as Bush loyalists might to say it wasn't so, it was immediately clear that the President had repudiated the central pledge of his 1988 campaign -- "Read my lips: no new taxes" -- a pledge he should never have made, since it has hamstrung economic policy throughout his presidency. Republican candidates screamed in fear that they had lost a potentially crucial issue for the fall congressional elections. Democratic congressional leaders kept a promise not to gloat; they gravely commended the President's statesmanship. But lower-ranking Democrats could not hide their glee that...
However, CCA supporters say they have made clear progress in their relationship with city administrators. Shortly after the CCA victory in November, many city politicoes predicted that the new council would be hamstrung by an inability to work with City Manager Robert W. Healy, who wields almost all executive power under Cambridge's 'Plan E' form of government...