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...unproven judge whose constitutional views would be hard to rebut because they would be hard to find and who, at age 41, could sit on the Court for decades. To make matters worse, officials did not deny that it was hoped the selection of the Jewish Ginsburg would pre-empt the opposition of Jewish liberals to the nomination of a judicial conservative...
Education lobbyists representing Harvard and most other colleges and universities have waged a battle to pre-empt Bennett's plan by proposing their own solutions to the default problem. They fear that Administration officials will use the default issue to achieve their long-sought goal of crippling financial aid programs...
Hawke presumably hoped that by holding out the promise of an agreement, he would pre-empt plans by Aboriginal activists to turn the government's celebrations next year into a forum for their claims of racial inequality. Still, Hawke was vague about whether the compact would take the form of a new statute or a territorial treaty recognizing tribal land rights. What was important, he said, was "attitude and commitment...
...into the race her campaign will be "too little, too late." Republicans take undisguised pleasure in her bid, predicting that, like Jesse Jackson's, it will exacerbate the Balkanization of the Democratic Party. To the seven male Democrats battling for recognition, Schroeder could present a threat if she can pre-empt the support of a large corps of female voters, who account for 53% of the Democratic electorate. Says candidate Joe Biden, Senator from Delaware: "She can attract a lot of support...
Stragetic Nuclear Forces. The critical question, says Hyland, is whether Gorbachev is willing "to recognize something along the lines of our version of stability." That would require the Soviets to cut their huge arsenal of silo-busting warheads, which pose a first-strike threat that could pre-empt the ability of the U.S. to retaliate. Some Soviet officials say they have come to accept the U.S. concepts of parity and are willing to go further by cutting back to a level of "minimal deterrence." That would involve each side keeping only enough weapons to assure that it could retaliate credibly...