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Proponents of the Megaplex argue that the new space could attract a Democratic National Convention in addition to annual gatherings by big groups such as the American Medical Association. In the long-run, the dreams of the proposal's backers are bigger--an NCAA basketball Final Four, a Super Bowl and maybe even the Olympics...
...organizations and two fundamentalist Muslim ones and at the same time promised Muslims that his government would help rebuild the Ayodhya mosque -- moves that some Hindu leaders warned might spark more resentment and violence. At week's end army troops were slowly bringing the violence under control. But the long-run survival of secularism and tolerance in the world's most populous democracy was by no means assured. (See related story on page...
...performance by these same individuals and their loose talk about the long-range merely serves to obfuscate real issues. It attempts to hide inexcusable blunders of the last five to six years by "averaging" them with previous more acceptable performances. This is nothing less than a cheap statistical game played against the unsuspecting president and the governing bodies. No refuge from reality should be sought in easy dismissive remarks about the long-range. This is unworthy of any analytical mind and contrary to common sense. In the long-run, as Lord John Maynard Keynes said, we all will be dead...
...next president, he scares me, because I fear that he and his Democratic advisers, in the backs of their minds, believe that since the Republicans had 12 years of deficit-financed fun, they are entitled to at least four. The Democrats simply must recognize that in the long-run, if we fail to get our fiscal house in order, the "change" they hope to effect will amount to nothing...
...short, Clinton is simply piling good debt (to finance investments in America and Americans) atop bad. His plan to "put people first" will do little in the long-run unless it is accompanied by a real reorientation of our taxation and expenditure policies to reduce the deficit and set the stage for future prosperity...