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...while on welfare. Senate Republicans have also joined with Democrats to restore a long list of spending cuts the House had approved, including $1.5 billion from education and $900 million from home energy assistance for the poor. Mindful of their image problem, it's likely that Republicans will also retreat somewhat over the next few weeks from their tax-cut pledge, at least to the extent of reining in breaks for families with adjusted incomes above...
...bureaucracies and little computers just don't mix," says business writer Thomas McCarroll, assessing AT&T's retreat from the computer industry. The company announced that it will lay off 10,000 workers worldwide in its Global Information Solutions unit, formerly NCR until AT&T acquired it in 1990. AT&T has lost at least $8 billion in the computer market since its 1984 breakup with the Baby Bells, McCarroll notes, and with these cutbacks seems ready to retreat into its traditional telecommunications business...
...That's great, but there is a catch. The Clinton Administration has also pledged that if a peace accord is signed, the U.S. will send 25,000 troops to Bosnia to help enforce it. No doubt that is a safer mission than covering a U.N. retreat. Still, at his office in Naples, U.S. Admiral Leighton Smith, who is in charge of nato's Southern Command, has two documents, each of which is two inches thick and marked "nato Confidential." One outlines the American plans for the U.N. withdrawal; the other is the U.S. plan for enforcing the peace agreement. They...
...past, Lake Superior, which represents one-tenth of the world's supply of freshwater, was considered "inviolable," but with environmental groups in retreat and a Republican Congress favoring "wise use" of natural resources, the Excelsior project is moving full tilt toward opening...
...acting in full concert with his patron. "The Serbs are doing something very interesting, which is to draw attention to the fact that the U.N. is not being neutral in this war. Serbs have long complained that the Muslims can go out on sorties against them and then retreat to safe areas to be protected by the U.N. So with this, the Serbs are saying, OK, let's negotiate, but don't call a club a heart here -- let's acknowledge that the U.N. is not being neutral...