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...just signed. In 1992 it would have been a wild, drunken Republican dream that by 1996 a 60-year-old entitlement like Aid to Families with Dependent Children would be demolished, the deficit reduced 60% and falling, a balanced budget pledged by 2002, the federal work force shrunk by 250,000 people--and that a Democratic President would have pushed for or okayed them all. Clinton won the battle, but the Republicans...
Likewise, Linson says that the Medical School's Native American community has in fact shrunk over his four years there, with only one student in the current first-year class...
...leading the charge to restore the majesty of the mainframe by giving its System/390 mainframes a complete makeover. The size of the machines has shrunk some 80%, and prices have dropped nearly 90%, to an average of $5 million. While mainframes still function as the old-fashioned workhorse for payroll departments and number-crunching scientists, they have also expanded into hipper new markets like the Internet, where they act as network servers. IBM even changed its trademark color to yellow or red stripes. "We don't even call them mainframes anymore," says Linda Sanford, an IBM general manager...
While the student clientele has shrunk, the menu hasn't changed, and the employees are still there. The more things change, the more they stay the same...
...report he produces must be rigorous without implying that the President flubbed the issue earlier. Gore is also the favorite mouthpiece for Clinton's rapid-response team, "prebutting" Bob Dole before a big Dole family-values speech, or slashing at Dole's equivocations on which programs will be shrunk...