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...conference committee had concluded negotiations. In an Oval Office interview with TIME Friday afternoon, the President pronounced himself "very pleased with the basic outlines" of the plan. "This is a big first step," he said, "but only a first step. Most Americans will see this as a very modest price to pay for getting the deficit under control and keeping interest rates down...
There were, however, a couple of things in the book that were unworthy of thought, even by the modest standards of airplane reads. One of these was Crichton's habit of stopping every 20 pages or so to give a little lecture on the evil genius of Japanese corporate culture. The other was a mystery about an American girl found dead on the boardroom table at a Japanese conglomerate's American headquarters. This plot was more intricate than it had to be because the author was determined to show that there was nothing in American life that the wily Asiatics...
...that it has proved effective only when accompanied by significant changes in diet and exercise and just for a few months. It remains to be seen whether patients will have to stay on the drug indefinitely to maintain their weight loss, and whether some will undo the drug's modest benefits by eating more...
...reporters and photographers trailing the Clintons, so the notion of walking the beach or sunbathing or doing laps in the pool seemed to have made her somewhat skittish. Mrs. Clinton's husband was not at all reserved about being photographed in his trunks, but she was more modest...
...Melbourne, Florida, the first sign of coming events was modest. On a lot across from the Aware Woman Center for Choice, which performs abortions, two portable toilets sprouted. They were put there by Operation Rescue, the militant pro-life organization that had bought the property in part to demonstrate near the clinic without violating a court-ordered buffer zone. Soon, locals knew, video cameras would appear -- toted by nearly every actor in the coming passion play: pro-lifers and pro-choicers taping each other, police taping both and TV-news teams taping everybody. "There's probably more money spent...