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...Senate Finance Committee Democrats -- managed a 50-to-49 victory in the full Senate. Earlier a G.O.P. alternative budget was defeated after a debate in which both sides pulled out Perot-style charts and pointers. The bill now goes to a House-Senate conference committee that will negotiate a hybrid version...
...long protest against it. The status of victim is not a passive blanket that you pull over yourself. You can always do something. Anyway, there's no such thing as a pure unmediated culture, any more than there's a pure unmediated self. All people, all cultures, are hybrid. I'm against essentialism. I'm against provincial nationalism. Yet people still insist on getting it wrong; they make the most absurd constructions on my work. It's not about saying imperialism was bad -- you don't need a book to tell you that." Not the least absurd is the idea...
...somewhat uneasy hybrid," he said. "The academic goals are the top of the mountain we wish to climb...the campaign priorities is how we're going to get there...
...many ways, Wynn is a hybrid of the old and new Las Vegas. He came to Las Vegas at a time when banks like Thomas' relied for some of their deposits on the Mob-controlled Teamsters Central States Pension Fund. But Wynn was also one of the first Las Vegas entrepreneurs to turn to Milken's junk bonds when it came time to build Atlantic City's Golden Nugget. He still refers to a casino as "the joint." But he was also the first in the business to decide to turn up the lights on the casino floor...
Interactive technology could, moreover, give rise to a hybrid of advertising and infomercials. Viewers could order up lengthier, information-packed ads for such products as insurance or automobiles the same way they order up programming. "When you get ready to buy a car," predicts Geoff Holmes, Time Warner's senior vice president for technology, "you could literally call up the showroom of each of the major car dealers and do a sort of 15-minute browse." Video classifieds could be next: simply scroll through the house listings and call up the ones that interest you for a full video presentation...