Word: pet
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...girl was wheeled into an operating room at 7:30 on a Thursday morning. Dr. Peacock's team exposed the surface of her brain and applied electrodes to stimulate it and provide yet another map to the diseased areas. Surgeons played the pet scan, the mri and the new data over and over on video monitors; the readings on all three had to match before the cutting away of malfunctioning parts of the child's brain could begin. The incisions were delicate, the atmosphere tense and progress slow. Surgeons relieved one another, while gowned students observed intently and residents stood...
President Clinton actually carried out his threat and cast his first veto, against a spending-cuts measure that would have stripped $16.4 billion from current expenditures. "I cannot in good conscience sign a bill that cuts education to save pet congressional projects," said the President. The Republican-sponsored legislation would have trimmed a host of social programs in the current budget while continuing to funnel funds for certain road and courthouse projects. Lacking the votes for an override, G.O.P. leaders said they would try to craft a compromise bill with the President...
...first veto to rescind $16.4 billion in spending cuts, prompting Republican cries that he had abdicated fiscal responsibility. At a Rose Garden ceremony celebrating the Drug-Free Schools Program, which the bill would have halved, the President said: "I cannot in good consciencesign a bill that cuts educationto save pet congressional projects." Clinton last monthhad asked Congress to restore $1.4 billion in proposed cutsin education, crime prevention, environment, housing and job training programs, and to offset them with cuts in construction and government overhead.TIME White House correspondent James Carneysays Clinton's veto grates against a recent presidential promise to balance...
...MARRIED OCT. 12, 1958, CITY TEMPLE, GRANITE CITY, ILL. PAUL AND JANET COYLE. "That way, if I died, they could find me," he says. Nearby, in two cramped rooms at the Budget No. 1 Motel, Robert Givens, 38, lives on welfare with his wife, six children, 11 cats, two pet lizards and a puppy. They were evicted from public housing after Givens, a manic-depressive, was accused of growing marijuana and brandishing a gun. "We're like the Brady Bunch, only different," says his wife Barbara...
...House budget chief John Kasich's blueprint for slicing an astonishing $1.4 trillion from federal spending over the next seven years. The plan would eliminate the departments of Energy, Commerce and Education, cut cost-of-living increases for federal pensioners, slash foreign aid sharply, and zero out Clinton's pet achievement, the national-service program. Even during the retreat, House members were forming "rump groups" to contest specific cuts, particularly the farm subsidies that Kasich has slated for major reductions. The hysteria will mount this week when Senate Budget Committee Chairman Pete Domenici makes his plan public-a plan without...