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With control over the Middle East (through intimidation if not outright conquest), Saddam Hussein would exert a powerful influence over the West, possibly holding our economies hostage as he does our citizens...
...York's plunge into chaos cannot be blamed on Dinkins, who has been in office for only nine months. In fact, he has inherited the whirlwind sown by decades of benign neglect, misplaced priorities and outright incompetence at every level of government. If during the city's close brush with bankruptcy during the 1970s Gerald Ford was willing to let New York drop dead, the Reagan Administration seemed eager to bury it. Since 1980, cutbacks in federal aid have cost New York billions, with funds for subsidized housing alone dropping $16 billion. Despite a series of state and local levies...
...solution to the health care problems that we face," he said. "Besides the exorbitant cost, the lack of economic efficiencies, and the faceless bureaucracy that this would cause, national health insurance systems around the world are characterized by diminished health care services, delays in providing services, and even outright denial of care for some...
...survival is scheduled for debate in the House in September or October, and pending proposals range from unrestricted reauthorization to outright extinction. The pork-barrel aspects of the agency -- it funds many hundreds of institutions, large and small, in all 50 states -- would seem to ensure its survival in some form. But Anne Murphy, executive director of the American Arts Alliance, seemingly speaks for much of the U.S. cultural leadership when she warns, "The endowment is bleeding to death...
...space-based deployment by 1993. Over the past seven years, Congress has appropriated $20.2 billion for the program. But critics on both sides of the aisle have become disillusioned by the Pentagon's relentless drive to put some version of Star Wars into space before it is killed outright. In their haste, the skeptics say, SDI's managers are skimping on tests that could determine whether the system will actually work...