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ITHACA, N.Y.--Cornell University hopes to slash bureaucracy, eliminate add/drop forms and give students access to myriad information databases as part of "Project 2000," the school's vision for the next century to be implemented next year...
Thus the landscape was set for the fall classic. Clinton's coherence forced Dole to flail. He had adopted much of Steve Forbes' supply-side agenda, but his proposal to slash taxes 15% bumped against his long insistence on cutting the deficit first. Dole seemed more wishy-washy than the President, who was becoming a model of constancy. In fact, voters deadened to sweet-sounding quick fixes became less enamored of Dole's tax-cutting scheme the more he publicized...
...economic question about Bob Dole's tax-cut proposal, and campaign advisers are happy to give a political answer. For instance, Why did Dole make a 15% slash in individual income-tax rates the centerpiece of his economic program rather than feature a more complex, rival alternative? Because it's easier to explain to voters, says Michigan Republican Senator Spencer Abraham, who helped sell Dole on the idea. Whatever the economic merits of the other plan, "people would have to think about their adjusted gross income and payroll tax. The concept doesn't translate to everyone...
Threats to slash federal funding to colleges and universities that refuse to allow the Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) on campus have bogged down in the Senate and do not appear likely to resurface this year...
...half-size, 67-ft. prototype of the VentureStar called the X-33 is scheduled to fly in 1999, the finished craft in 2006. NASA and Lockheed claim that the innovations will shrink the shuttle's price-per-payload-pound from $10,000 to $1,000, slash repair and inspection costs and reduce turnaround time from weeks to days. Goldin envisions fleets of VentureStars launching satellites, hauling material back and forth to space stations and ferrying tourists into orbit. "Many people have aspirations of going into space," he says. "They should be able to live those...