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When renegade House Republicans made a last-ditch attempt to soften President Bush's tough savings-and-loan bailout bill last week, there was nothing wimpy about his response. As the House debated the legislation, the President corralled congressional leaders and took his cause to the people. "It is time for the American public and our Administration to say that enough is enough," Bush said. If the House weakened the stringent new regulations of the bill, the President warned, he would veto it. By week's end Bush prevailed when the House approved a strong bailout bill by a vote...
...School's grading system gives as much weight to class participation as to exams, discouraging reticence while rewarding those who contribute to class discussions. As a result, students say they often address the ethical elements of a case study only in last-ditch attempts--called "chip shots" in B-School parlance--to offer a relevant comment before class time elapses...
Oscar Wilde's aphorism comes close to summarizing John Tower's last-ditch defense. Forget the sandstorm of charges swirling around the diminutive former Senator; ignore the serious questions of sobriety, sexual escapades and the sale of Government expertise. To the beleaguered nominee for Defense Secretary, the real issue is the motivation of his judges in the Senate, who he implied were hypocrites pursuing the partisan politics of personal pique. "Is it an acceptable standard for Senators late in the evening who've had a few drinks . . . ((to)) vote on vital issues of nuclear deterrence?" Tower asked with rhetorical venom...
...Bush refused to intervene, contending that such a move was unlikely to produce an agreement. He also warned the unions against staging secondary boycotts of other carriers. As the strike deadline approached, Eastern's management made a last-ditch offer to reduce its wage-concession demands to $125 million, but IAM viewed the concessions as still too large...
President Bush continued to court Democrats in a last-ditch effort to save the appointment, and spokesman Marlin Fitzwater asserted, "We'll just keep up the good fight...