Word: ideas
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...unusual court dynamics. The most conservative Justices, like Chief Justice William Rehnquist and Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas, who may be least warmly inclined toward this particular President, have been the most philosophically committed to a strong presidency. More liberal members, who are more open to the general idea of allowing a President to be sued, may have more sympathy for this President, who elevated two of them to the bench. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg may be in the toughest position of all. As a former women's-rights litigator and a Supreme Court moderate, she is certainly...
...employer must now send to Social Security, might speculate on, say, cattle futures (without the helpful insider advice that Hillary Clinton got) or engage in similar recklessness. The we-know-better crowd are also worried that any partial privatization of Social Security might give the average Jill the heretical idea that those fica deductions from her paycheck belong to her and that she should control how all that money gets invested. This would, they said, undermine support for Social Security's lesser-known role as a safety net for the working poor and disabled. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan...
...Your idea of the best music includes a bunch of hinterland artists with minimal, perhaps questionable, talent. I pity the poor individual who takes your word and purchases some of this audio doo-doo. Here's a partial list that your readers may embrace without worrying that you might be trying to push someone to the forefront out of some sort of pathetic attempt to exclude artists who have a gift of musicianship: Shawn Colvin, A Few Small Repairs; Sting, Mercury Falling; Keb 'Mo', Just Like You; Beatles, Anthology III; Paula Cole, This Fire; Lyle Lovett, The Road to Ensenada...
...faster than about 5 percent annually. "Clinton has to hit these big ticket items if he has any realistic chance of balancing the budget," says TIME Washington correspondent Jef McAllister. "Since Medicaid and Medicare have had big percentage increases in spending in recent years, this is not a revolutionary idea." That theory won't stave off gripes from the health care industry, from worried patients or from die-hard liberals in the President's own party. Fueling the fears of Medicare and Medicaid patients concerned that they will not be able to obtain health care when they need it, doctors...
...proposed that the federal government radically alter its relationship with the District of Columbia by assuming responsibility for tax collection, prisons, courts and roads as part of a multi-million dollar effort to rescue the District from its longstanding financial woes. TIME?s Ann Blackman notes that the idea has energized Washington residents who had begun to think that the District could not manage to solve its intractable problems: ?There?s a chance to make the city into the gem it should be, instead of the dump it is now. The potholes from last year have yet to be repaired...