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...Republicans clearly think so. Hillary has been such a constant target of G.O.P. campaign barbs that Bill Clinton recently wondered aloud whether "George Bush was running for First Lady." In making her a focus of their attack strategy, the Republicans seem to have calculated that they can shave votes off Governor Clinton's total by portraying his wife as a radical feminist who prefers the boardroom to the kitchen. And they may be right. In the latest TIME/CNN poll, 74% of the respondents said their votes would not be affected by their views of Hillary; but among the remainder, almost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: All Eyes on Hillary | 9/14/1992 | See Source »

...Houston. He needed to reunite his splintering party after a brutal primary campaign. If he couldn't explain exactly what he wanted to do in a second term, he at least needed to remind a majority of Americans why they voted for him in 1988. And he needed to shave roughly half of Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton's 25-point lead in the polls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Playing For The Big Bounce | 8/31/1992 | See Source »

...American hurdler Edwin Moses shows how critical changes in technique can be. Before the 1976 Games, Moses, a physics major in college and a strong proponent of sports science, analyzed his stride and discovered that it was longer than most hurdlers'. That, he figured, could enable him to shave a step from the traditional 14 that most competitors took between vaults in the 400-m hurdles'. Moses won the gold and wrote a paper on the biomechanics of running 13-step hurdles. Four years ago, at the U.S. Olympic trials, backstroker David Berkoff set a new world record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Engineering the Perfect Athlete | 8/3/1992 | See Source »

...Perot, you have said that as head of Electronic Data Systems, you did not prohibit employees from wearing beards. But in fact, in 1983 a federal judge found that Reggie Dallaire, an orthodox Jewish worker at your company, was fired for no other reason than his refusal to shave his beard. Through 1986, beards, striped shirts and even tasseled loafers were against EDS rules. How do you reconcile these facts with four earlier statements, and what do such strict rules say about your tolerance of people who dress or look or think differently than...

Author: By Ira E. Stoll, | Title: Ross Perot Looks Corporate to the Core | 7/7/1992 | See Source »

Knowles' approach, to shave away atexpenditures, was implemented through 6 percentcuts in departmental operating budgets thatRosovsky had imposed, in addition to such measuresas bulk purchasing to decrease costs andadjustment of financial aid to allow forinflation...

Author: By Joanna M. Weiss, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Weary Knowles Eyes FAS Budget Shortfall | 6/4/1992 | See Source »

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