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...March 1996 on future directions for the entire U.S. intelligence community. The House Intelligence Committee is preparing a similar report, while Senate Intelligence Committee chairman Arlen Specter announced he is drafting legislation to reorganize and cut overlap in intelligence collection. Carns promised last week that the operation ``will be leaner, but at the same time we will do more of the more important things...
...Exercise spas threw open their glass doors and mirrored chambers. Folks didn't just watch their weight, they also enrolled in diet movements, diet 12-step programs and diet franchises complete with celebrity TV endorsements and calorically correct prepackaged snacks, meals and desserts. Even the Christmas turkey seemed somehow leaner...
...himself in postelection Washington, President Clinton went on national television to espouse a "Middle Class Bill of Rights" consisting mainly of -- surprise! -- tax and spending cuts. Seeking to differentiate his program from tax and spending cuts advocated by Republicans, the President explained that his were aimed at producing "a leaner, not a meaner, government." The Administration's tax cuts would favor middle-income Americans with children and would include new higher-education deductions. The as-yet-unspecified spending cuts would target, among other agencies, the Departments of Transportation, Energy and Housing...
...rechannel some federal funds into direct grants for job-training.Payment for all this, as predicted, would come from steep budget cuts at the department of Energy, Transportation and Housing and Urban Development (where, the president said, 60 programs will be streamlined into four). The result, Clinton said, would be "a leaner, not a meaner, government." And he reiterated his commitment to lobbying and campaign reform and called for a more upbeat national dialogue: "We have got to be a community again." The final promise, stump-style: "My rule for the next two years will be country first, and politics as usual...
...lead to one with a nifty lefty lay-in. Harvard answered with a Snowden drive, a Big Green foul and two made free throws for 56-53 lead. After Dartmouth's sophomore swingman Seamus Longeran (a game-high 21 points in 37 minutes) netted a right-handed leaner and Dartmouth center Brian Gilpin drew a questionable charge on Harvard fireplug guard David Demian, Gilpin bricked the front end of the ensuing...