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...What I'm foreseeing is a cutting of federal funds even more than in the past," said Cambridge Mayor Alice K. Wolf. "In the end they won't fund money, they'll just retract money. It's all smoke and mirrors," she said, referring to the federal government's attempts to camouflage cuts by switching funding from one program to another...
Buchanan remains predictably unrepentant: "I don't retract a single word. The reaction was simply hysterical and is localized to New York." In the truest tradition of the columnist, he vows to have the next, if not necessarily the last, word on the whole topic. A future piece, Buchanan says, will address how out of touch New York City and its media are with the rest of America...
Even if many Republicans are professing that abortion isn't a partisan question, the issue was their bane this fall. Several anti-abortion Republican candidates were caught unawares by the shift in public opinion, and they could only clumsily retract their former positions. Their inconsistency may have cost them the election...
...penny. The practice smacked of dumping, in which goods or services are sold below cost. Fujitsu hoped to recoup its initial loss by having city officials eventually buy more expensive software and hardware. While Fujitsu has admitted to carrying out similar practices in the past, it offered to retract the latest bid. Even so, the government has pledged to investigate whether the company broke any laws...
...Kiszczak for the post. But Kiszczak ran into such fierce resistance from both the Solidarity opposition and some legislators allied with the Communists that frantic politicking continued right down to the wire. Communist leaders pressured their rebellious allies within the United Peasant Alliance, offering important positions and threatening to retract privileges. The tactics paid off. When the vote was counted Wednesday, Kiszczak emerged on top: 237 to 173, with ten abstentions...