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...action. Lacking the strong Democratic majorities in both houses that LBJ enjoyed, Clinton can't afford to offend many legislators from either party. So his partisan approach to his $16 billion budget stimulus was a stupid political move, and the Republican filibuster that killed it was a predictable slap in the face to a politician who should have known better. Similarly, Clinton should have expected Sam Nunn to turn to immature power games when the president failed to consult with him about ending the military's ban on homosexuals...
...when Congress preempted the president by over-whelmingly voting to codify the ban into law, Clinton got a slap-in-the-face demonstration of the limits to presidential power...
...everyone agreed. Some blacks saw only partial justice. And some white policemen took the convictions of Koon and Powell as a slap in the face. But even among white cops, that feeling mingled with an almost giddy relief at the prospect of not having to cope with a riot on the scale of the one last year that left 53 people dead. "Everybody in Los Angeles is just happy that this cloud has finally been dispelled," said police captain Patrick Froehle. Many % blacks agreed. Said one woman, buying bacon at Sun's Market on Avalon Street, which was burned...
...those who believed that the U.S. economy had finally climbed out of the doldrums, the news from the nation's shopping malls last week came as a slap in the face. The Commerce Department reported that Americans shut their wallets in March and sent retail sales down 1% for the steepest monthly decline in more than two years. While part of that drop reflected the severe March weather, Commerce revised its earlier optimistic figures for February, saying store sales had fallen 0.3% instead of rising 0.3%, as it had originally reported. "The momentum of the recovery is decidedly fading," says...
...help control production of behavior-regulating chemicals. One suspect substance is the neurotransmitter serotonin. Experiments at the Bowman Gray School of Medicine in North Carolina suggest that extremely aggressive monkeys have lower levels of serotonin than do more passive peers. Animals with low serotonin are more likely to bite, slap or chase other monkeys. Such animals also seem less social: they spend more time alone and less in close body contact with peers...