Word: pushings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Republicans believed that their mandate would allow them to push through their agenda with Clinton in full retreat. But Clinton has outmaneuvered the Republicans, allowing them to demonstrate to the public their extremism and providing himself with the perfect political ammunition. He is retreating no further; in recent weeks, emboldened by increasingly favorable polls, he has stood up to Congress, most notably during the government shutdown...
Clinton will then have his first chance to truly set the agenda for the country as it enters a new century. While the electorate will not allow him to push through liberal programs like LBJ's Great Society, he can establish a moderate, slightly liberal coalition that could help reestablish the Democrats as the majority party...
...from afdc to Medicaid to Food Stamps, and give the states latitude to cut more. Even if President Clinton vetoes the bill and extracts concessions from Congress, reductions will probably be significant. Republicans maintain that the old programs are fatally flawed and that the new, pared-down ones will push people to escape poverty. But few who have studied the issue doubt that the transition will be difficult. And those who work in charity expect a new cascade of the homeless, the hungry and the abused to spill out of the government's shrinking safety net and turn...
...Vice President Al Gore will use to sway Congress and the public center on the need to halt a bloody and destabilizing war in Europe, to maintain U.S. leadership in the world and to play its role in the forefront of nato, lest the alliance fall apart. To help push the proposal, Administration officials will emphasize their promise that U.S. troops will remain in Bosnia for only about a year. As the campaign to send American troops to Bosnia kicks off this week, Gore, Christopher, Holbrooke and Defense Secretary William Perry are to testify on Capitol Hill. Clinton will...
...shared by many others. I oppose the Oslo accords (which expand Palestinian self-rule in the West Bank) for a simple reason: Israel is compromising the personal security of many of its citizens and also, perhaps, military security. In return, the Palestinians are holding firm to their desire to push the Jews into the sea. I implore Acting Prime Minister Shimon Peres to honor the Bible and refuse to sign future Oslo agreements until the Palestinians change. DEBORAH WUNSCH BACH Haifa, Israel Via E-mail...