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...What you may not know is that five days earlier, on Nov. 3, millions of American students and their parents will vote for a new President in a mock election sponsored principally by Time Inc. United by a live nationwide satellite broadcast, they will be taking part in the largest voter- education project ever...
...brute question that nobody wants to answer in an era of $200 billion deficits is, Who provides the resources? And we ought to look at where the largest pools of subsidized consumption are. And I believe the idea of spending hundreds of billions of dollars on entitlements in which we're giving money to people who really don't need it, when we could take a much smaller amount and really help the poor and the children, is really an unforgivable way of allocating resources at a time like this...
...says privately that he understands Dukakis' need to play it cool with him on occasion. And despite the Democrats' increasing gloom, Jackson seems content. Why not? He knows he will be around no matter what happens on Nov. 8. If Dukakis departs in de-feat, Jackson will be the largest figure on the Democratic horizon...
Butler's rocks will not turn any heads at Cartier; the largest is a few thousandths of an inch thick. But the sturdy crystals could be used to make wear-resistant machine tools, for example, or scratch-proof lenses. Diamonds would even make first-rate computer chips if they were not so expensive to produce. Butler's technique could help solve that problem. "The gas is free," he points out, "and the supply is virtually unlimited...
...largest donors take advantage of an easy way to circumvent the limits on contributions. In addition to giving directly to campaigns, they funnel money to political parties at the national, state and local levels, or to other private organizations that are technically independent of the candidates. Such gifts are not covered by federal election laws and can thus be unlimited. This type of contribution, known as "soft money," is the fastest-growing area of campaign finance. In 1980 the two major parties took in only $15 million in soft money; this year the total will be more like $100 million...