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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...will now work to have the Senate position prevail in conference over the House proposal, in which the grace period is eliminated and the parent loan interest rate increases remain," said Rowe in his statement...

Author: By David L. Greene, | Title: Senate Limits Student Aid Cuts | 10/27/1995 | See Source »

...case. For his part, Cochran denies that in his summation he was urging "jury nullification"--proposing that jurors set aside the evidence to make their decision on another basis. "What we said is that in this case, where there is such a reasonable doubt, for the prosecution to prevail each link in the chain of things has to be proved beyond a reasonable doubt," he explains. "They didn't do that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE O.J. SIMPSON TRIAL: AN UGLY END TO IT ALL | 10/9/1995 | See Source »

...janitor once, and a tribal policeman for a while when his uncle was police commissioner. But jobs on the Sioux's Pine Ridge reservation are so scarce that only 1 out of every 3 adults has one. In fact, as in hundreds of other reservations where Third World conditions prevail, there is only one real source of income, only one source of medical services and of food. There is only one real source of hope that someday Little Boy's family will be able to move out of squalor: the Federal Government. But the Federal Government is about to pull...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BURY MY HEART IN COMMITTEE | 9/18/1995 | See Source »

...just very concerned about the politics ofdivision. We built this country on beinginclusive, but division is sort of the temper ofthe times," Sanders said. "I hope that rationalvoices will prevail and that I'll be one of them...

Author: By Alison D. Overholt, | Title: Former Prof. Running for Senate | 7/28/1995 | See Source »

Fortunately, conscientious senators' support of "democracy at any cost" managed to prevail over this attack and the income tax check-off box will remain. But such a happy result may not last for long. After the Clinton-Gingrich "love-in" in New Hampshire last month, it may be difficult for Democrats to credibly charge the Republican rivals with such sinister tactics...

Author: By Frank A. Pasquale, | Title: Making Power Permanent | 7/18/1995 | See Source »

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