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When he sees no easy way out, Bush often just splits the difference, an inclination that frequently angers conservatives. Bush has repeatedly opted for this route as President. He decided to build both the MX and mobile ! Midgetman missiles, when either might suffice. He backed a boost in the minimum wage to $4.25 an hour, 30 cents less than Democrats and labor unions wanted. Bush supported a wage increase during the 1988 campaign, but after his Inauguration, White House economic advisers opposed it as inflationary. "He had to deliver on a promise," said a top official. "The easiest thing...
...authorize those only if the Bush Administration agrees to scale back its $70 billion program. The House also chopped $1.8 billion from the Administration's $4.9 billion request for the Strategic Defense Initiative, cut $502 million out of Bush's $1.9 billion plan for a rail- launched MX missile, and completely eliminated $100 million for the Midgetman missile. Griped Bush: "Yesterday was not the House's most memorable moment." The Senate is expected to complete its own, equally tough spending prescriptions this week. Differences between the two versions will be resolved in a September conference...
Once in a great while, an automaker creates a car that sends rivals into a + funk and motorists into a covetous swoon. Right now that vehicle is Mazda's new MX-5 Miata, a curvaceous, two-seat convertible that is intended to combine the look and feel of mid-century roadsters with the reliability of modern engineering. The first few thousand Miatas began arriving at Mazda dealerships earlier this month, and sold out instantly...
...usual Bush method of dealmaking with Congress is to straddle an issue and give something to everybody. Typical was last week's decision to pursue development of both the mobile MX missile and the Midgetman. Either one alone would serve the nation's security needs, but both have strong supporters in Congress. This method smacks of perfidious pragmatism to one of the few papers Reagan is known to read and enjoy, the conservative weekly Human Events, which bristles with articles critical of the new Administration. "I do not think President Bush's concept of the presidency can work," writes Patrick...
...instead of selecting the MX or Midgetman, perhaps the President might be wiser to stay with the existing Minuteman. -- Why U.S. Jews are unhappy with the rigid policies of Israel's Yitzhak Shamir. -- House Republicans put some lash in their whip by electing contentious Newt Gingrich as their No. 2 man. -- The swain of cocaine: a DEA Don Juan made cases by making love...