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...political players weighed the risks of a Berlusconi fall eight months after national elections had decimated Italy's traditional political parties. If new elections were held, no one could be sure how voters would react. In first-round municipal balloting two weeks ago, Berlusconi's party, Forza Italia, dropped from its 30% share last June to only 12%, largely because of public resentment against his drive to shrink the bloated welfare state by reforming government pensions. During his run for the Prime Minister's job, Berlusconi had promised a new economic miracle in which a million new jobs would...
...ever visited his state. "I'm ready to go to North Carolina right now," an angry Clinton informed White House chief of staff Leon Panetta, who brought him the news last Tuesday. The deep strike in enemy territory was quickly dismissed as impulsive. "We can't just react every time Jesse Helms decides to push his crazy buttons," said a senior official...
...hope other campus leaders will react strongly to it," he said in a telephone interview. "I hope that [those who posted the sign] will come forward and explain why they felt it was appropriate...
...engine exhaust deposits nitrogen oxides into the atmosphere, where they can chemically react with and deplete ozone...
...might argue that Congress has been Democratic long enough that effective long-term policies would have emerged if the politicians were capable of creating them. But one must also realize that the composition of the government is incidental if politicians must react to the whims of an uninformed public just to keep their jobs. We are so fickle that our elected officials are almost forced to waffle and break promises in order to be both effective and reelected...