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...Dionne calls the Anxious Middle--voters who are disenchanted with government but fearful of the creative destruction that is producing big winners and a lot of losers in the national economy. Dionne believes that the very technological revolution that Gingrich extols and that is roiling the American economy will hasten the day when the G.O.P.'s antigovernment mantra becomes unworkable...
...ouster, Bruce believes, will be "a personal affront to all those people who joined NOW since the Simpson verdict'' and serve to hasten its decline. NOW leaders "are practicing the politics of the left as opposed to the theories of feminism," she says. "People don't join NOW to work on a host of social-injustice issues. They join to work on women's issues." Just what those issues are, however, remains open to debate...
...telecommunications deregulation bill that is awaiting a House-Senate conference would hasten this process. It would require all local telephone companies to open their networks to these new services so that a call placed on a PCS phone could be put through to a conventional phone on an office desk, and vice versa. Ominously to AT&T, the bill would also allow the Baby Bells and other local phone companies to enter the long-distance market...
...darker side, even if they do not recognize it. Their charismatic leader preaches that they are surrounded by enemies, that nonbelievers are out to crush them and that God commands vengeance. In some sects they are told to commit violent acts, says Hoffman, "because the only way they can hasten redemption or achieve salvation is to eliminate the nonbelievers...
Winter weight workouts combined with mid-February training on a barely thawed Charles River highlight the Black and White's efforts to hasten both the vernal equinox and boat finishes. A winter's worth of hard work could prove the deciding factor in the success of this year's women's crews come April...