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Clinton has pledged, in the spirit of Roosevelt, to spend his first 100 days reigniting the nation's economic confidence. Instead of accepting a muddle- through series of compromises that offends few factions, he must be a leader, working with the new Democratic Congress to produce the kind of jolt that will cause Americans in their corner coffee shops to talk once again about the future with hope, not fear. The rare combination of an administration and both houses of Congress controlled by the same party means that the President can be held accountable for a change. But it also...
...team hopes, however, to give its 3-11 record a jolt in the positive direction this weekend as it hosts Princeton, Brown and Boston College at the Harvard Invitational...
...centuries to follow, will be complex, fast- paced and turbulent. Human beings everywhere have learned to live with, even thrive on, explosive increases in the volume of knowledge, the capacities of technology, the potential for travel, the electronic immediacy of once distant cultures. Change has become almost addictive, a jolt to energy and creativity...
...average cup of coffee contains about 100 mg per cup, while tea has about half that amount. A can of Coke has 100 mg also, while a can of Jolt has 200 mg. Smaller amounts of caffeine can also be found in chocolate...
...economy will not get anywhere near as big a jolt -- it is eight times as large as the other two combined -- but should enjoy an explosion in exports to Mexico. According to trade experts, those could increase substantially from a projected $40 billion this year, ultimately creating more and bigger American paychecks. Says U.S. Trade Representative Carla Hills: "For every billion dollars worth of exports, we gain 20,000 jobs." More important, she told a press conference last week, jobs in export industries pay on average 17% more than employment in the rest of the economy...