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Your treatment of delays in developing new drugs let the Food and Drug Administration off the hook. A poll of cancer specialists commissioned by the Competitive Enterprise Institute bears this out: 65% believe the FDA is too slow in approving drugs, and more than 70% state that FDA delays have hurt their ability to give the best possible care to patients on at least one occasion. Worse yet, more than 10% say they frequently encounter this problem. In short, for many of these doctors, fighting cancer very often means fighting the FDA as well. SAM KAZMAN, General Counsel Competitive Enterprise...
...Which leaves the President off the hook until January. Unless... "This puts the pressure squarely on Monica for now," says Tumulty. "If Starr can cut a deal with her and get her to talk, he has a shot at building a case this summer." The problem with that is that Monica Lewinsky, by herself, does not an airtight case make. It seems much more likely that Starr will wait it out -- and thus our long national nightmare has just gotten quite a bit longer...
...million fine after pleading guilty to shipping cluster-bomb material to Iraq during the Iran-Iraq war, but that was an exceptional case. Even during the cold war, only professional smugglers suffered harsh criminal penalties. And White House officials insist the waiver did not get Loral entirely off the hook. If no criminal charges are brought, the Commerce Department could still impose stiff penalties. But since Clinton always has his eye on Gore's 2000 campaign--and Schwartz remains a go-to guy for the Democrats--nobody expects that to happen. And that little piece of Washington reality is more...
...that passed the law authorizing the program, or at least authorizing something. A modest three sentences of the massive Telecommunications Act of 1996 told the FCC to expand an existing industry-funded program that provides low-cost telephone service in rural areas and inner cities into one that would hook up schools and libraries. "We gave them much more of an opening than we have in the past," says John McCain, chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee. "They did what bureaucrats do when you give them money and power...
...intent, as if they had just written an essay on that very question and if only they could find it buried deep in their cavernous backpack, they could address the issue. Their eyes remain downcast, praying that someone, probably Johnny, will say something and let them off the hook...