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...front runner for the Democratic presidential nomination. Some pundits are speculating that he might even have the prize locked up in another eight or nine weeks. Their script: Clinton uses a victory or strong second-place finish in the New Hampshire primary Feb. 18 as a launching pad to wins in scattered primaries and caucuses from Arizona to Maine, and then storms the polls in 11 states, eight of them in his native South, that will vote on Super Tuesday, March 10. The next day the Arkansan will have the lion's share of the 1,400- odd delegates chosen...
...infrastructure projects are to get further than a contractor's sketch pad and the economy is to be permanently transformed, not just temporarily revived, a long period of low interest rates is essential. For that reason, the overwhelming majority of economists argue that the Federal Reserve must keep the discount rate near its current 27-year low of 3.5%. Still, the central bank can do only so much. Since the bond market remains quite wary of a ballooning federal deficit -- and would undoubtedly drive up interest rates in anticipation of dramatically rising deficits -- Congress will have to keep a constant...
...parted company over basic concepts. I'm for the preservation of the union as a country. I'm against what I've described as the pie being sliced up and served with tea. ((Gorbachev doodles on a pad; what emerges is a picture of a pie with crisscross lines through it.)) Who has the right to cut this country into pieces...
...launching pad for a spectacular season in which he scored 23 touchdowns, averaged 159 all-purpose yards per game and set several NCAA records, including most consecutive regular-season games (10) with at least one TD reception...
...plant, with a 90,000-gal.-a-day capacity, and two tanks holding 250,000 gal. of water could last some 200 people more than a month; underground ponds hold additional water supplies. Not far from the installation's entry gate are a control tower and a helicopter landing pad. The mountain's real secrets are not visible at ground level...