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Last Tuesday, after being on the job only 11 days, Attorney General Janet Reno had the Justice Department moving and shaking. She requested the prompt resignation of all 93 U.S. Attorneys around the country "to build a team" that represents "my views" and those of the President. Although expected eventually, the move triggered alarms at the Washington prosecutorial office, which has been probing the finances of a key Democratic floor captain, House Ways and Means chairman Dan Rostenkowski. Reno insists there was "no linkage"' between the dismissals and the probe, which insiders say will continue...
...Yeltsin who would not be much worse for the causes of free- market democracy in Russia and friendliness between the Kremlin and the White House. The Russian's promise of democracy as the goal of an interim semi-dictatorship gave the Administration a plausible excuse for making its support prompt and public -- though some officials confided that the backing would have been forthcoming, reluctantly, even if Yeltsin had acted more autocratically than...
...personally am all for prompt retirement for everyone, including myself," said Franklin L. Ford '48, McLean professor of Ancient and Modern History emeritus, who is retired...
...that bank earnings hit a record $32.2 billion in 1992, even as bank lending declined. Armed with such statistics, President Clinton asked the industry to loosen credit strings, particularly for small businesses. To encourage the major lending companies to lend more, Clinton unveiled a package of proposals designed to prompt banks to extend loans more on the basis of track record and reputation than on collateral...
...dire warnings about the potential death of this market are not exactly bolstered by the restaurant association's own studies. In 1986 it released a report claiming that the 20% decline in deductibility would prompt a 6% drop in annual sales and job losses of more than 400,000 per year. As a result, the argument went, any gains to the Treasury would be more than offset by lost revenue from income and sales taxes...