Word: provisionally
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The jockeying over reform has caused tempers to flare. Some Senators saw evidence of overly strenuous industry lobbying last month, when Senator Larry Pressler of South Dakota, chairman of the committee that drafted the Senate's version of the bill, read into the record a letter from a Time Warner...
There were several reasons why the generals decided to take a gamble on Suu Kyi's release. First, the domestic political situation is more stable than it has been in the recent past: the government has concluded peace negotiations with 11 of the country's 12 major ethnic and tribal...
One potential solution seems to be gaining support. Last week President Clinton, in a speech to the Conference on the Family and the Media in Nashville, Tennessee, endorsed the V chip (for antiviolence chip), a technology that would allow parents to lock out programs previously identified as having a certain...
Two weeks ago, for example, Buse was on floor duty when the Senate considered the second version of a recisions bill intended to cut $16 billion from the current year's budget. Buse noted two suspicious changes. One required that nasa purchase, "for no more than $35 million,'' a Texas...
Alerted by Buse, McCain was soon on the floor, threatening to delay the Senate's July 4 recess by demanding a separate vote on both projects. Eventually, Yellow Creek was removed from the bill, and the Clear Lake provision was modified to McCain's satisfaction. "There is still a belief...