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...intended to do. The law was never supposed to prevent legal sales or, all by itself, to significantly reduce gun crimes. It was expected to make life more difficult for criminals by denying them legal gun sales. Because the Brady-mandated background checks are carried out by a patchwork of state and local authorities, just how effective it has been is hard to say. By federal estimates, 40,000 felons have been kept from getting handguns. In West Virginia, for example, ``we've had at least 180 denials this past year, and I think that no matter what, that...
President Clinton today endorsed a patchwork of federal budget cuts totaling $24 billion, a first step in backing the Administration's pledge to match the $60 billion tax cut package unveiled last Thursday with reductions in spending. "We must pay for the 'Middle Class Bill of Rights' with new reductions in government spending dollar for dollar," Clinton said. "We have to change yesterday's government." The moves include: turning the Federal Aviation Administration's air traffic control system into a quasi-private corporation (with Federal safety oversight remaining); making the Federal Housing Administration, which guarantees mortgages, another quasi-independent entity...
Jackson uses Pauline's diaries to conture up the patchwork of reality and fantasy worlds this plot inhabits. The viewer is bombarded by a succession of distorted scenarios--a grainy old film-strip of Christchurch, the Claymation-type animation of Pauline and Juliet's invented alter egos, the "Fourth World" they imagine as their private paradise and the dubious authenticity of mid-century New Zealand. Which world are we supposed to believe in? The extremely exaggerated reaction of Pauline and Juliet to any situation seems to fit the various levels of fantasy existence better than it fits the cramped confines...
...Square is like a collage or patchwork quilt built in pieces, but each piece is self sufficient and we have to make each piece more successful into itself," Nichols said...
...Cruise in "The Firm"), the novel's hero is a cigarette-smoking 11-year-old; in place of the Firm's boardroom, the setting is working-class Memphis. Nevertheless, the similarities remain, and Grisham ultimately leaves the reader with a heavily dramatized Southern family saga spliced into a patchwork of legal confrontations and cliched Mafia tough-talk...