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...cost-sharing partner. Even in a Congress raised on pork, such seeming make-work did not go down easily. In June 1993, Roemer introduced an amendment to cut off station funding. The measure failed, but only by a whisker, 216 to 215. In a partisan Congress, a one-vote margin is a tenuous thing, and in order to widen the gap, NASA turned to a time-tested budgetary strategy, spreading the wealth...
...Drug companies have already floated the possibility of profitably selling their AIDS therapies in Africa at discounts of up to 90 percent - inadvertently telegraphing the size of the profit margin in the prices they charge in the U.S. - but even then, a year of cocktail treatments would still cost about four times the per capita income of the worst-hit countries. Asking Africa to increase its debt burden to finance the purchases may quite simply be untenable - indeed, the U.S. Export-Import bank, which is financing the program, has had to go into negotiations with the IMF because a number...
...vote for President with the Supremes in mind, but consider this: on Wednesday the court split 5-to-4 on a crucial vote, striking down a Nebraska law that bans partial-birth abortions (and almost surely taking out similar laws in 30 other states). That one-vote margin is important, because the next President is likely to nominate two or more Justices--enough to transform the court on abortion and other key issues, from affirmative action to school vouchers to gun control...
That was the argument Al Gore made last week, trying to use that "razor-thin" margin to stir up women. At an energy event in Ohio, the Vice President tossed out his script and launched a discussion of the high court's future, warning that the election "will decide whether or not we keep a woman's right to choose or see it taken away." This may sound like campaign hyperbole, but it isn't. Three of the Justices nearing retirement--John Paul Stevens, 80; Sandra Day O'Connor, 70; and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 67 (all have battled cancer)--belong...
...Clinton's audience is nearly 2 to 1 Republican, and the GOP is looking to add to that margin in November. Never mind Congress, where Clinton torpedoed the Democratic majority with health care in 1993 and proceeded to triangulate his colleagues into fractious irrelevance in '96. Sure, he whipped Newt and nailed the Republicans on impeachment, but if folks liked Clinton in the White House, they liked Republicans in their statehouse. The governorships are where likable, pragmatic Republicanism has taken hold, and the 2000 election is likely to be a showcase for just that...