Word: ideas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reach that goal, the White House must compromise with Congress while protecting such Clinton promises as education incentives and measures to safeguard the environment. Along the way, Rubin will have to fend off the Republican opposition's shibboleth: a proposed constitutional amendment to mandate a permanently balanced budget. The idea, which enjoys support among a smattering of Democrats, is opposed not only by Rubin and the President but also by Greenspan. They point to the rigidity of the notion in the event of an economic downturn, and argue that it is inappropriate in the Constitution. "As strongly as I favor...
...that, as the proverb suggests, is almost impossible. Starr may yet bring indictments against Clinton aides who participated in a possible cover-up during the first term or perjured themselves in sworn testimony. But attention is shifting--from a scandal based partly on the hard-to-believe idea that Clinton tried to enrich himself to the easy-to-believe idea that he wanted to get re-elected. Clinton, everyone knows, cares little about making money. But when it comes to winning, he takes no prisoners...
Though Gore needs money for a presidential race, he also needs clean hands. Plus he has to pre-empt a possible primary challenge from former Senator Bill Bradley of New Jersey, who wants to make a signature issue out of campaign-finance reform. Lately Gore has been promoting the idea of requiring broadcast outlets to provide advertising slots, the main thing campaigns spend money on, free of charge to them. No big outlays, goes the reasoning, no need for big fund raising. But on the most important piece of current reform legislation, the McCain-Feingold bill banning "soft money" contributions...
Roxanne Hayes, last week's victim, leaves three children ages 3 to 11. Over the past 11 years she had accrued 99 arrests, mostly on prostitution and drug charges. But she probably had no idea what sort of man she was visiting; Singleton's first crime predated Florida's public-notice statute on sex offenders. Said her grieving boyfriend: "Roxanne did nothing to deserve what she got from...
...idea is to convert the defensive People's Army into a modern, mobile attack force capable of projecting power beyond China's borders. Top priority is a blue-water navy to carry troops into areas remote from the mainland. But the Pentagon estimates that it will be at least 20 years before China can rival the U.S. Navy, and it is an open question whether any regime can bear the expense of seeking military superpower status...