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...likely criticism, but gave nothing away. Leaders of both parties came to sense that if Hillary Clinton had the authority to negotiate, she was reluctant to use it. Her mission instead, they concluded, was to proselytize, spread goodwill and encourage the partisans of competing approaches to stay loose. Their hunch was right: though she traveled widely to keep her husband's promise of reform alive while he was distracted with the budget, she kept her distance from the day-to-day decision making. After her father had a stroke in March, she withdrew from the task force for a month...
...injections of PEG-ADA. "We have no intention of letting these children get sick while we're waiting to see if the stem cells ((become functional))," says Wara. "When we see that this has happened, then we will start withdrawing the enzyme replacement." But will it happen? "My personal hunch is that this is going to benefit these two children," says Kohn. "If it does, then we can go on to more common diseases...
...have any figures for the size or cost of [the center]. Right now it's just people with a hunch that might work. We have the opportunity to study it further and make a better educated decision," Levie said. "I hope people will allow us to study it without bombarding the idea...
...work as a clerk-typist, at $6.85 an hour. "If this is happening not just to me but to thousands of other people," says Collins, "I don't see how the economy can ever totally recover, because we don't have the spending power we used to." Her hunch is right. After adjustment for inflation, the real incomes of U.S. workers have declined about 13% over the past two decades...
...Republican Convention. After watching conservative speakers bash gays and Hillary Clinton in Houston, the Bakerites immediately sensed that the theme was, as an aide put it, "exclusionary, rather than inclusionary." Within hours of taking over at the White House, Baker team members requested poll data to back up their hunch. When they got them, they moved to more closely tie Bush's talk of family values to his policies. "There was just a consensus," said an official, "that we were eventually going to hurt ourselves if we weren't careful about how we handle...