Word: pushes
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...sign of rebelliousness to come. A fourth of the way through the benchmark 100-day push for their contract, Republicans can count a major House victory with the passage last week of the balanced-budget amendment, which will require an estimated $1 trillion in spending cuts by 2002. It must still pass the Senate, where Democrats want Republicans to detail in advance just where the cuts will fall, and then be approved by at least 38 state legislatures, a more iffy prospect. But whatever the pitfalls ahead, it was the bumpy process of getting it through the House that surprised...
...Driven equally by ideological verve and concerns about the voters back home, the freshmen are also threatening to walk away from a Mexican bailout supported by Republican leaders in both houses; to force the most stringent version of term limits, over the objections of party elders; and to push for a repeal of the assault-weapons ban, a huge fight the Speaker doesn't want just yet. ``Some of these guys just have no fear,'' says an awestruck Republican House veteran. ``Some of them look at us like we're the problem...
Gregoire said he would push for a large-scalemusical event and a large-scale comedy event...
Fine said the council should make a "big push"to bring in a major musical act. He said he alsowanted to see a large comedy concert and addedthat social events should, as a rule, be used "tounify the campus...
...Yeltsin's failure to prevent arbitary arrests and illegal searches. China drew fire as "an authoritarian state" that tortured political prisoners and waged a war of repression in neighboring Tibet. The verdicts come amid conflicting signals within the Clinton Adminsitration, including a constructive engagement policy on China and a push to increase U.S. aid to Russia. "We stick up for human rights, but it doesn't seem a priority," says TIME State Department correspondent J.F.O. McAllister. "There isn't the anti-Communist card to play that brought conservatives on board during the Cold...