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That is one reason the primary fight turned out to be so costly--and not just because it cost him most of that $70 million he had noisily raised. It's hard to run as a merry Reaganaut when you and your surrogates have barbecued John McCain, or talked about uniting people and then courted those who'd rather not. Both men emerge with plenty of scars--but since Gore is trying to sell himself as a fighter, the scars are more natural accessories in his wardrobe...
...teeming with summiteers. "It's getting wild around here, and I say that as someone who went through the Persian Gulf War," says Colonel Bill Smullen, Powell's top aide. With just two months to pull off a splashy national event, Powell conducts short, ruthlessly efficient meetings. Former Reaganaut Michael Deaver, a p.r. consultant, says, "You might think something is going to breeze through, but nothing gets by unchallenged. He hates to waste time; he makes decisions easily. He is absolutely in charge...
Bingaman and others on Capitol Hill have urged the White House to identify critical technologies and invest prudently in each one. The problem for the Administration has been how to change tack without appearing to double back on the Reaganaut course. After repeated nudges from his friends in business, Bush groped his way toward a middle-ground policy in which the government would join with private industry to help "precompetitive, generic technology." By restricting federal financing to investment in broad technologies in the early stages of development, rather than products ready for commercial exploitation, the White House insists that...
...lawmaker who could counter Bentsen in the Southwest. As a Catholic and Italian American, he could help in the bid for urban ethnics. "We'd love to have a guy with a vowel at the end of his name," says one Bush aide. But he is not a true Reaganaut: as Budget % Committee chairman, he struggled with the Administration, urging tax and budget prudence...
...zero option has had a bizarre, irony-ridden career. Born as a slogan of the European left in the late 1970s, kidnaped and turned to their purposes by Reaganaut hard-liners in 1981, now adopted and turned to his own use by Mikhail Gorbachev, it may come to maturity at a summit later this year as the first arms-control agreement in nearly a decade -- but also as the object of intense opposition...