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Clinton has scheduled private briefings this week to consider some of the tough choices that he gave short shrift during the economic summit: a hike in the gasoline tax, a new national sales tax and a tax on employer-provided medical insurance -- each of which could be rebated to lower- and middle- income taxpayers. Another option: "redefine" Clinton's pledge by vowing to eliminate the deficit by the end of his second term...
...setting aside the fact that most of us--students or otherwise--have absolutely no formal role in deciding what gets cut, we don't even know how money is currently spent. This means we can't even informally advise administrators on what's receiving short shrift and what's getting too much cash...
...least a token concession, a sign the party would lean at least a little toward the "big tent" concept its late chairman, Lee Atwater, had formulated. But the platform drafters not only flattened the pro-choice faction; they also took a hard line against gay rights, gave short shrift to environmentalists and called for an indefinite moratorium on new business regulation. Donald Devine, one of the many right-wing activists monitoring the platform, labeled this collection of planks "as conservative, or more so, than any since...
...matters in the broader scheme of promoting self- actualization. More than a tinge of naivete colors this side of Steinem, whose struggle to balance her public and private lives has hardly been waged behind closed doors. Yet her sensitivity is not without cause. Many reviewers have given short shrift to or virtually ignored the political implications of her thesis in order to elaborate on the minimal amount of personal details she chooses to divulge. "All this concern about the private life of public figures simply allows people to typecast," she counters, "and it distracts from what is important...
...most conspicuous resistance to the story came from the New York Times, which relegated it to short shrift on back pages even after 60 Minutes. Says executive editor Max Frankel: "We had been meeting over the months on the issue of privacy, with long discussions on whether we are in the business of covering the sex lives of candidates and about how far we go in other privacy matters." He denies being affected by the outcry over an investigative profile last year of Patricia Bowman, the woman who alleged that she was raped by William Kennedy Smith...