Word: seeks
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Consider the tortured logic and faux piety behind the G.O.P.'s excuses for inaction. Newt Gingrich, prattling on about free-market sanctity, says ``every other industry'' would seek relief if Congress intervenes. ``This is just a private labor dispute,'' adds Senate majority leader Bob Dole, and ``we Republicans want to keep the government out of things, not get it into things.'' That sounds coherent, but there's a significant slice of hypocrisy here: Congress is largely responsible for the current horror. It long ago stacked the deck against the players by exempting baseball from the antitrust laws, protection no other...
...challenge: paring down inefficient state-run industries and the loaded bureaucracies that serve as the backbone of the socialist state. Laid-off employees have nowhere to go for work, and the government has so far allowed only 160,000 people (out of a total population of 11 million) to seek self- employment...
...only Israel joined the U.S. in saying no. ``Why should the U.S. maintain economic sanctions against Castro if it is willing to trade with Hanoi and Beijing?'' asks a European diplomat. A senior Clinton official can only reply, ``History matters.'' The Administration, he says, ``probably wouldn't seek to create an embargo if it didn't already exist. But there's been one for a long time, and to get rid of it now would send a message that Castro should be legitimized...
Barzun said his ideal reconstruction of the Core would challenge its current philosophy. But he added that "given the bureaucratic nightmare that is Harvard, we'll seek more minor reform...
...Richard Lugar (R-Ind.), who heads the Senate Agriculture Committee, reportedly will seek to cut farm subsidies by a whopping 30 percent through the year 2000 -- ten times as large as the cuts that President Clinton sought in his budget proposal. Lugar will lay out his proposal before the Senate Budget Committee (which is working on the balanced budget amendment) tomorrow, but the basics of his plan were reported in The Washington Post today in a column by political writer David Broder. Lugar would shave $15 billion from an anticipated $50 billion spending on farm programs over five years. Clinton...