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Nationwide, 6.7% of Americans pledge money to public broadcasting -- about $280 million last year, or one-seventh of PBS's budget. The majority of donors are concentrated in a handful of big cities and retirement communities...
...accounts a brilliant intellect and a world- class professional legal expert ((THE WHITE HOUSE, March 21)). That's why I find her self-portrayal as a victim of poor record keeping for Whitewater simply not believable. How can the Clintons expect us to trust their replanning of health care, one-seventh of the U.S. economy, if they can't properly account for a single real estate investment...
...pair making the insurance industry's case against the Clinton health-care plan. Harry and Louise are more than just a couple of smooth talkers moving product: they're would-be opinion leaders. TV and radio commercials have become a major forum for debating the restructuring of one-seventh of the economy, the health industry. Besides the $10 million that the Health Insurance Association of America has spent on Harry and Louise, the AFL-CIO has budgeted $3 million on campaigns to support the Clinton plan. Meanwhile the Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association has allocated about $9 million for ads to counter...
...these has a more emollient name, but we'll get farther if we keep the bark on.) The lust for power, or at very least the conviction that increased state power is the solution to all ills, simply has to be present in any proposal to boost regulation over one-seventh of the nation's economy. Two years after the collapse of communism, and at a time when even the mild-mannered Eurosocialists are considering a four-day workweek in order to boost their % stagnant employment statistics, faith in the efficacy of state management remains surprisingly strong here. The reason...
...Lowell they call it the Acre. Less than one-seventh of the current 105,000 citizens of this Massachusetts mill town call it home. But tens of thousands of working-class immigrants going back a century and a half before them have left marks as vivid as the archaeological artifacts uncovered in successive layers of limestone. In few places are the textures and tensions of ethnic urban history as legible as they are here...