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Clinton's priorities -- which remain basically intact -- but there was little supporting data. Experts like Representative Leon Panetta and Alice Rivlin (whom Clinton has tapped for the two top slots at his budget office) derided the plan as unsound, and Ross Perot ridiculed Clinton for a "a bunch of junk numbers that don't compute." Perot's criticism dovetailed perfectly with Republican claims that Clinton was a tax-and-spend liberal, and the Democrat's standing in the polls sank precipitously...
...life, a parabola of supreme artistry and self-destruction, was, as she says, up a little bit, then down. Way down. Her last dire days, her body racked with junk and her voice cracked like thawing ice, have been rued and romanticized. When she died in 1959, the superstructure of the legend was already raised: the instinctive jazz talent, full of early genius, snuffed out by racism, callow commercialism and self-indulgence, her best work far behind...
...heir apparent, president Robert Lutz. Iacocca sees the upheaval as a positive force. "We do run better scared," he says. "When we have trouble, we're used to that. That has been the beauty of Chrysler for 50 years." While Chrysler still has $15.9 billion in debts rated at junk-bond levels, last month the company surprised analysts by posting $202 million in earnings for the third quarter, making Chrysler the only profitable member of the Big Three...
Research suggests that by the age of 18, a child has watched 10 to 15,000 hours of television, and over 200,000 commercials. How much of this television consists of cartoon/advertisements and other junk TV is unclear, but a quick glance at a given day's programming suggests that the proportion is high...
From nearby Weston, Mass., Roiter bears every semblance of a friendly, pleasant 18-year-old who is kind to animals and has a weakness for chocolate and junk food...