Word: leone
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...save $141 billion more than his June budget proposal. While congressional Republicans complained throughout the day that the Administration was relying on overly optimistic economic forecasts, House Speaker Newt Gingrich nonetheless allowed: "It's a start." After briefing Democratic lawmakers on Capitol Hill, White House chief of staff Leon Panetta told reporters the President is considering mechanisms to rescind tax breaks and to impose automatic spending cuts if deficit reduction targets...
...year, 2.3 billion-mile odyssey will culminate Thursday when the Galileo spacecraft swings into orbit around Jupiter. "The accuracy of this is really amazing," says TIME's Leon Jaroff. "Scientists were able to make incredibly precise calculations to place Galileo in exactly the right place, using Venus and the Earth in a 'crack-the-whip' maneuver to boost the probe's velocity to give it sufficient speed to make it all the way to Jupiter." Also Thursday, a smaller probe released from Galileo 147 days earlier will enter Jupiter's atmosphere. "There won't be any dramatic pictures, just...
Still, for many years the musical world has seemed loath to view Wild as anything other than a consummate master of a vanished pianistic style. For the past 40 years audiences have favored the colder, more analytical approach of pianists like Leon Fleischer, Gary Graffman and Maurizio Pollini. The brief romantic revival of the late 1960s highlighted his expertise with such composers as Chopin and Lizst, but Wild has never received the critical acclaim he deserves...
...October 23, Judge Leon Higginbotham of the Kennedy School of Government testified on the subject of affirmative action before a United States Senate subcommittee on the Constitution. So did the president of the United States Pan Asian American Chamber of Commerce (USPAACC), Susan Au Allen. USPAACC is a national non profit organization representing Asian American men and women in business and other professions...
SOMETIMES THE ONLY WAY TO RESTORE a frayed friendship is to pick a fight with a common enemy. When chief of staff Leon Panetta gathered 15 or so of the President's top advisers last week to plan their communications strategy, Topic A was to figure out what message Bill Clinton should convey if, as expected, the stalemate with Republicans over the budget leads to a partial shutdown of the U.S. government this Tuesday. A shutdown, precipitated in part by Clinton's refusal to accept Republican budget priorities, could be a good thing for the President, Panetta and others offered...