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...restrained when commercial banks are freed of various obligations to support money-losing state enterprises, but that will be some time coming. Finally, privatization of state-owned companies was acknowledged as a distant prospect -- though the communique made it clear that for the moment public ownership would remain the "mainstay" of the economy. Says a Chinese economist: "They're making the blueprint now, but we're going to call 1994 the year of economic reforms...
...Until recently, the mainstay medication for asthma was theophylline, which is chemically very similar to caffeine," Greineder said. "I've had patients with high caffeine intakes who needed to take less theophylline to adjust for the caffeine...
Peabody, a popular choice, boasts a K-3 model school for reading. The mainstay of this program is the school's Literacy Center, staffed with a early childhood specialist and part-time reading assistants for all first and second graders...
...Hill last week. Coming from the powerful chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, who will be a key player in shepherding the new President's economic program through Congress next year, that seemed a reassuring pledge. But there may be a problem: TIME has learned that this mainstay of Clinton's legislative strategy could be severely shaken -- if not toppled -- by the results of a criminal investigation into the alleged misuse of Rostenkowski's $1.3 million campaign fund...
...Republicans have achieved the inconceivable goal of both ruining America and convincing American voters that things are peachy. They've done all this, of course, with political masterminds like Roger Ailes and Jim Baker, campaigns that divide America by race, sex, religion, and sexual orientation, and that old GOP mainstay--lies. These days of Republican social division and deception, thankfully, are finally gone. But Bill Clinton's plans for the country, though they come from a man who seems to have the right priorities, are sometimes wildly optimistic (his projections for economic growth) and sometimes just plain wrong (his inexplicable...