Word: jims
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Caught in the middle are 140,000 U.S. dairy farmers who, having run up a milk surplus for years, are split over whether extra production is good. Some farmers are angry at having "technology shoved down our throats," says Jim McGhee, who runs an 18-cow dairy farm near Hollandale, Wisconsin. But many say that if BGH will help their bottom lines, they're willing to try it. The big question is whether consumers can approach the supermarkets with an equally receptive attitude...
...about 48 hours, Ira Magaziner, the architect of Bill Clinton's health-care reform plan, had a strangely delighted air at the White House senior staff meeting last Thursday morning. The afternoon before, the Business Roundtable, a group of corporate executives, had supported the alternative plan drafted by Congressman Jim Cooper of Tennessee. In a few hours, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce would use harsher language to reject the Clinton approach. Earlier in the week, Clinton offered to trade away two key elements of Magaziner's design in order to win support from Republican Governors. But through it all, Magaziner...
President Clinton's health-care plan was dealt a blow when the influential Business Roundtable of 200 of the country's largest firms endorsed a rival plan sponsored by Tennessee Democratic Representative Jim Cooper -- this despite avid lobbying by the White House. The National Governors' Association, meanwhile, came out in favor of health-care reforms similar to those proposed by Cooper's bill, and the 215,000-member U.S. Chamber of Commerce said President Clinton's plan "cannot even be used as a starting point...
...JIM COOPER...
...grounds crew are right out there with machinery," said Jim Hoey, Mather House assistant superintendent. "We've been completely on top of it, working all night long. You don't want to fall behind with this weather...