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...Tuesday night when he takes the prime-time stage and delivers his budget address to a joint session of Congress with the nation watching. This was what Bill Clinton lived for, the annual sales presentation, and though the man could go on and on, he always his made his inch-by-inch priorities sound like the right, pain-feeling things to do, and afterward the Republicans always sounded stingy and mean...
...While the G's, dressed down like tourists, students and street people, kept their eyes on the Russian agent, a second team of FBI agents and personnel from the State Department's office of diplomatic security was covertly scouring the department with a Geiger-counter-size debugging device. An inch-by-inch search of the first through sixth floors yielded nothing. Then a few weeks ago, investigators found a tiny microphone-transmitter on the seventh floor, a short walk from "Mahogany Row," the ornate suite occupied by Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and her top advisers...
...portray their candidate as a homespun political hedgehog, a man with a simple, overarching view of America, while representing Bill Clinton as a sharp-eyed political fox, a candidate who has, as Bob Dole says, "a million little plans." Dole repeatedly contrasts his "one big plan" with Clinton's "inch-by-inch" approach. The subtext of Dole's message, beginning with his Senate resignation speech, in which he described himself as "just a man," is that he, not Clinton, possesses a singular insight into the American character, an insight that he cannot always put into words. The hedgehog...
Candidate David L. Duncan '93 said that the new chair's performance wouldlikely determine "whether there is a turnaround inthe council's slow inch-by-inch battle forrespectability, or whether we will continue theslide into the shadow of further studentcontempt...
...prospect of inch-by-inch progress in Vienna and Geneva only underscored warnings that there will be no quick "peace dividend" for the overstretched federal budget. Defense Secretary Dick Cheney's planned $180 billion in Pentagon cuts through 1995 amount to little more than deletions in the military's wish list. Nuclear-arms control saves little money because it normally results in destruction of hardware that has already been paid for and often requires expensive verification methods. Reducing conventional forces could save money, but not much: defense-budget experts from the Rand Corp. to the Congressional Budget agree...