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Boskin increasingly clashed with Sununu over the President's sunny pronouncements on the economy. Sununu kept Boskin away from Bush until November 1991, when the economist threatened to resign in protest. Granted an audience, Boskin told the President that the economy was not recovering as quickly as it had from previous recessions because it was struggling under unprecedented burdens, including the huge debts left over from the Reagan era. Among the new hardships were the steep regulatory costs of the Clean Air Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act. Boskin later bluntly told Bush that he was unlikely...
...fine for accepting a $4 million illegal campaign contribution. But the Japanese public, stirred by the arrogance of the long-ruling Liberal Democratic Party power brokers, was furious that Kanemaru got off so lightly. Protests within his party, in business circles and in the press finally forced Kanemaru to resign his seat in the Diet and as chief of his faction, throwing the ruling party into disarray. Said he: "It was Shin Kanemaru who was wrong. There are no other bad guys...
...pressure over his handling of the Iraqgate affair, Barr named Frederick Lacey, 72, a formidable ex-prosecutor and federal judge from New Jersey, to serve as an in-house "independent" investigator. Still, congressional Democrats are demanding a court-appointed special prosecutor with full autonomy. Lacey insists that he would resign if Barr or the White House blocked him. (See related story on page...
Schulman has said repeatedly she has no plansto resign...
...elect me, and I can't arrange a generalelection for Udergraduate Council chair byNovember third, I promise that I will resign aschair," McKay said...