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With White House blessing, Senate majority leader George Mitchell began circulating several leaner, alternative versions of universal health-care reforms, including trimmed benefits and reduced employer contributions. In the House, Energy and Commerce chairman John Dingel floated his own new compromise, which offered exemptions to small businesses. House Ways and Means chairman Dan Rostenkowski, meanwhile, argued for a tax hike to help pay for reformed health care...
...hired nutritional consultant will "help us make healthy choices for the menu," the dining services director says. "We are looking for leaner alternatives...
...most highly automated mining processes. Colorado financed an ambitious drive to make Denver an international hub with a new $3 billion airport. Utah restructured its copper and steel mills and absorbed their laid-off workers into gleaming new aerospace, computer-software and financial-services facilities. "The Rockies became leaner and meaner ahead of the rest of the country," says Russell Behrmann, Utah's economic- development director of administration. When the national recession hit, the states were "recession resistant -- they had some built-in antibodies...
...camera style. ! Here, you feel, is a moviemaker, a popular artist with an infectious joy in his craft. What Raimi calls Woo's "supercharged adrenaline" -- the reckless intelligence he applies to solving the most familiar action scenes -- is evident in each precise, superpotent frame. He could be a cleaner, leaner Sam Peckinpah, or Sergio Leone: the next generation. And in his best work, Woo is a critic and elegist of movie manhood. His Vietnam film, the amazing A Bullet in the Head, is an atrocity picture with a conscience -- an unflinching Asian view of the politics of testosterone...
WASHINGTON--No, Bill Clinton's astoundingly poor approval rating won't make any difference in 1996. Clinton's popularity can't go anywhere but up, and an American attention span honed on USA Today won't remember the leaner days...