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...future agenda is focused on "building down," as he puts it. Pet projects include proposals to get rid of farm subsidies and scrap the Social Security system. Still, there are signs that he may have softened his edge. "We want to have a happy, democratic work environment that is welcome for Democrats as well as Republicans," he said last week. "We'll show ((the Democrats)) our good grace, and their worst fears will not be realized." But Democrats may wonder: Is that a genuine offering or an appetizing lure trolled by a crafty angler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newt's Battle-Ready Armey | 11/28/1994 | See Source »

...wind-tunnel project was just what the voters had soured on. Sasser triumphed in their first debate, but Frist turned his lackluster performance into another sign that he wasn't a smoothie from the big city. Sasser then turned negative, pointing out that Dr. Frist had masqueraded as a pet lover to get cats from an animal shelter to use in lab experiments, that he had not even registered to vote until six years ago. The Senator pointed to the irony of a heart-and-lung surgeon saying it was up to parents -- not government -- to decide whether children should...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ELECTION: A Pair of Giant Killers | 11/21/1994 | See Source »

Cooper did not even actively seek Clinton's support, but part of his downfall may have come from the fact that he proposed a health care plan, Clinton's pet legislative project...

Author: By Jeffrey N. Gell, | Title: News Analysis | 11/9/1994 | See Source »

Sander's spring 1995 collection, wrote Women's Wear Daily, "showed Milan how women should dress -- with subtlety and elegance." Unlike so many other designers (including Jean-Paul Gaultier, who staged his latest show amid carousel horses and a pet rat), Sander does not approach fashion as performance art. In Milan, on an unadorned runway, she presented quiet, knee- length dresses that were refreshingly unclingy, soft jackets and billowing pants in glimmering cottons, a faint blue A-line suit so purely sophisticated that it is something Catherine Deneuve could have worn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FASHION: Lessons in Lessness | 11/7/1994 | See Source »

...hopes that Arafat will not view the prize as a pet on the back for his good work...

Author: By David J. Andorsky, | Title: Nobel Booby Prize | 10/19/1994 | See Source »

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