Word: opinions
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Before Bush unveiled his proposals, public opinion surveys were giving him exceedingly low marks on the environment. Actually, though, the President set up a clean-air working group immediately after the Inauguration. It proceeded in what is becoming a trademark manner for this Administration. The group met repeatedly with environmentalists, industrialists and key lawmakers but gave them no hint of what its members were thinking. The President's advisers then fought it out among themselves at six meetings of the Domestic Policy Council. EPA administrator William Reilly pressed for stringent measures; budget boss Richard Darman argued that the cost...
...issue was not whether to raise the minimum wage but by how much. Last week the effort faltered because neither Congress nor President Bush would give ground on a 30 cents-an-hour difference of opinion. On Tuesday Congress sent legislation to the White House calling for a $1.20-an-hour increase, to $4.55, by 1992. Less than an hour later, 35,000 ft. over Wyoming aboard Air Force One, the President vetoed the bill. Bush has insisted that $4.25 an hour is enough...
...Ambassador James Lilley and try to persuade international bodies such as the World Bank to cease making loans to China. Administration officials gloomily acknowledge that they may be driven to such steps if hard-line rulers in Beijing launch a purge of all who oppose them, further inflaming American opinion. But for the moment at least, the Administration is resisting...
...nation through proclamations and statements, Khomeini left it to his followers to forge specific policies. Still, he remained the pivotal figure of Iranian politics, even toward the end, when his various illnesses made it impossible for him to follow events closely. The dismissal of Montazeri, in the opinion of many experts, put increased power in the hands of the pragmatic Rafsanjani, who is also Commander in Chief of the Iranian armed forces. In the final months of Khomeini's life, the spotlight also turned on his son, Ahmed Khomeini, 43, who has lately been increasingly visible in public life...
...direct' was delivered by looking right at a person and not acknowledging his acquaintance or even his existence. This is no longer done. It has been replaced by the lawsuit." The subject of drinking inspires a classic paradox: "Never refuse wine. It is an odd but universally held opinion that anyone who doesn't drink must be an alcoholic...