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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Clinton emphasizes that he will watch the economic indicators through mid- January before deciding whether new deficit spending is needed. In any case, he insists, he will seek long-term deficit reduction as well as new public investments in education, job training and public works. But new spending will be easier to accomplish if it is simply borrowed from future generations, Reagan-Bush style, rather than painfully extracted from existing programs...
Athletic department officials, however, maintain that they seek to provide the same opportunities to all sports and denies any preferential treatment for men's teams...
Some athletes say the department's prioritiesare most visible when they seek medical attention...
...Guantanamo naval base in Cuba, known to servicemen as Gitmo, a private is dead -- the result of harassment by two members of his platoon. The victim was a screw-up who compounded his sins by stepping outside the chain of command to report a rules infraction and seek a transfer. A "Code Red" -- informal disciplinary action by his barracksmates -- is suspected. But are the offenders wholly culpable? Or did they act under orders (or tacit encouragement) from superior officers...
...some experts doubt that plans to limit the tax deductibility of stock options and other types of compensation to $1 million will really curb executive pay. For one thing, corporate officers who have cashed in their options can always go back to their boards to seek new incentives designed to get around the higher taxes. Says compensation specialist Graef Crystal: "What these tax policies will prove, if enacted, is that the answers to excessive corporate compensation lie outside Washington. It will not be until the shareholders begin to demand accountability that executive pay will come into line with reality...