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...also the part-timers who want to work full time and the discouraged workers" -- those who have been looking for jobs so long that they have given up and fallen out of the statistics. Clinton voiced the same view, telling reporters, "We are nowhere near to knowing that this short-term recession . . . is over...
...little or no provocation. In the community around Malcolm X, fighting often escalates in an instant. "There are no more fisticuffs," says Pannell. "It's maiming, stabbing, shooting immediately. This is the kind of learned behavior, the environment in which these children are growing up." At Malcolm X, the short-term objective is to intercede and present a peaceful resolution. The ultimate goal is more ambitious. "Too many black males are being killed every day," says Pannell. "It's necessary that we put violence prevention into our everyday curriculum. We have to do something to stem this tide of violence...
Also, after four or five cups of coffee, I'm bound to have a headache. Taking Tylenol would be risking drug addiction, thus jeopardizing future presidential aspirations, so there's really only one solution for short-term relief: more coffee...
Rubin in the past has emphasized the need forlong-range planning over short-term economicstimuli to jumpstart the U.S. economy...
...sharpening dilemma for him. How much stimulus does he need to inject, in terms of new spending and investment tax credits, and how big a price does he dare pay by increasing, however temporarily, the federal deficit? The President-elect allowed that the news "could have some impact on short-term judgment." Aides asserted, though, that they are still sure the economy will need jazzing up; the question is how much and how fast, and Clinton may not decide that until mid- January, after seeing how Christmas sales and other year-end figures...