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...whether it was for real. The movement's name--devolution--has a nice millennial-Tofflerian ring. But veteran legislators remembered that Republicans--most recently Ronald Reagan--have promised this sort of thing before. While Reagan downsized many federal programs, he failed to exempt the states from picking up the slack. Result: big federal-budget cuts and big increases in state taxes. This time both sides of Pennsylvania Avenue were on board, but even as Gingrich looked on and Clinton talked about moving beyond the ``benign mistrust'' that he said had characterized federal-state relations, some of the Governors still felt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEVOLVE AND CONQUER | 2/13/1995 | See Source »

...high enough level here that youcan't slack off and still achieve, eitheracademically or athletically," Alpert adds...

Author: By Victoria E.M. Cain, | Title: 'Dumb Jocks' at Harvard: Debunking the Myth | 2/1/1995 | See Source »

...admission, the University faculty has failed to pick up the slack...

Author: By Marios V. Broustas, | Title: Improvements Suggested for Museum Security | 2/1/1995 | See Source »

Stafford lamented what he sees as Harvard'slack of clear guidelines for computer users...

Author: By Douglas M. Pravda, | Title: MIT Piracy Case Shows Technology Laws Lacking | 2/1/1995 | See Source »

...SLACK JAWING...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Jan. 30, 1995 | 1/30/1995 | See Source »

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