Word: newt
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...Heidi Toffler, the husband-and-wife team whose 1970 blockbuster, Future Shock, blasted the infant profession into the mainstream and set the standard by which all subsequent would-be futurists have been measured. A quarter-century later, having been catapulted back onto the front pages through their association with Newt Gingrich's "cyberbrain trust," the Tofflers are about to be repackaged for the digital era by Creative Artists Agency, the Hollywood agenting Goliath. The vehicle for this effort: a multimedia clearinghouse called FutureNet, which is building everything from a site on the World Wide Web to a weekend televised magazine...
...strategy, GOP lawmakers may gain personal credibility in their states for keeping their promise, but will also give Clinton the opportunity to make good on his 1992 campaign promise to "end welfare as we know it." The Dole campaign scrambled to take credit for the decision spearheaded by Newt Gingrich and Trent Lott, but the Republican candidate will not get a lot of mileage out of the issue unless President Clinton is forced to veto the new legislation. --Lamia Abu-Haidar
...Benjamin Netanyahu wowed Congress Wednesday in a speech to both Houses that showed the Israeli Prime Minister to be on the same economic page as House Republicans. "It was an Oscar-caliber performance," says TIME's Eric Silver. "He played his audience beautifully." Taking his cue from both Newt Gingrich and Bill Clinton, Netanyahu said that he would end the era of big government in Israel. Pursuing free market policies, Netanyahu said, would steer Israel towards true economic independence and allow it to be weaned off the $3 billion in annual U.S. assistance. Netanyahu's impassioned speech also touched...
House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R.-Ga.) said yesterday the inquiries, which also include a separate House committee probe, will examine "whether or not the Clinton administration knew in advance of the danger...
Gingrich's popularity has ebbed since the heady early days of the Contract with America. His 33% approval rating in a May TIME/CNN poll of U.S. voters was only 9 points higher than Nixon's was before he resigned the presidency. It is an anti-Newt backlash that, Georgia Democrats believe, has occurred back home as well. While a February poll by the Gingrich campaign indicated that 75% of likely voters in his district think the Speaker deserves re-election, the Coles operation claims that in its own surveys 47% of Gingrich constituents say he is not performing well...