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...ARGUMENTS FOR building the multibillion-dollar space station Freedom is that it would provide a zero-gravity laboratory to grow bigger and purer protein and silicon crystals. But increasingly there is a question as to whether the crystal-growing techniques, at least for proteins, are all that reliable. Reviewing a decade's worth of such space efforts, scientists writing in Nature found that less than a quarter of the experiments actually worked, and then with only mixed success. Their recommendation: rent time aboard the already orbiting Russian space station...
Bush said in South Dakota that he wants a multibillion-dollar grain export initiative for American farmers even though it would complicate the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and ignore the one thing we thought Bush did believe in--free trade...
...this amounted to a blast of national exposure that money couldn't buy for Souljah, Clinton and Jackson. What really fueled the curious coming together of politicians, a "revolutionary" rapper and a multibillion-dollar entertainment conglomerate was their shared concern for the bottom line. Clinton achieved a key political objective: refocusing the media spotlight on his message to moderate voters that he is unafraid to deliver unpopular messages to important Democratic constituencies, including blacks. Jackson, who has been groping for a way to elbow into the campaign, obtained a grievance that he can use to browbeat Clinton for concessions. Lenin...
...tapped is the spirit of volunteerism that so entranced Tocqueville 150 years ago, the this-is-a-new-land-and-we-can-do-anyth ing ethos that once defined the national character. Ross Perot in three short months has out of nothing created something far larger than a multibillion- dollar company, or perhaps something even larger than the multimillion- dollar campaign he will fund. Win or lose, his populist crusade and the challenge he is mounting to the establishment parties may well help break the deadlock of American democracy...
...that's what everyone seems to be doing, anyway, and who am I to quarrel with multibillion-dollar monthly capital flows...