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...interview last Friday, the president said he is keeping close tabs on the progress of key appropriations legislation which threatens to slash student aid and scientific research...
...wooing dis gruntled customers away from the sometimes clumsy giants. California's Glendale Federal has taken aim at Bank of America, which merged with Security Pacific in 1992 in a $4 billion deal. Draped over the en trance of Glendale Federal branches are banners with a red circle and slash mark above the Bank of America logo and the slogan you deserve better. That and everything from free checking to discount airline coupons are designed to lure people like Juliet Kaz, a Security Pacific customer who complains of long lines and new charges since the takeover. But like many depositors...
...school athletes and forbade Congress to extend power over the states. What made all the difference is that Sandra Day O'Connor and Anthony Kennedy, two perennial swing votes, swung regularly to the right. There they met up with Chief Justice William Rehnquist, Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas, the slash-and-burn conservatives. That the term also saw the further consolidation of a fairly reliable four-vote liberal block--John Paul Stevens, David Souter, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer--is cold comfort to those four and their supporters. Unless they can attract O'Connor or Kennedy to their side...
...party-line votes, both the House and Senate adopted the Republican seven-year balanced-budget plan that would slash spending by nearly $1 trillion and taxes by $245 billion. President Clinton warned that he would wield his veto power in the months ahead to refashion the spending and tax bills that will be required to implement the plan, which only sets budgetary outlines. In other budget matters, a $16.4 billion package of cuts in the current year's budget-originally vetoed by the President but since modified by Republicans to obtain his support-was stalled just before the July...
Visiting San Francisco to observe the 50th anniversary of the United Nations at its birthplace, President Clinton criticized its bureacracy and drift even as he defended the organization from House Speaker Newt Gingrich and others in Congress who want to slash U.S. funding and support of peacekeeping operations. "Over the years it has grown too bloated," Clinton said, addressing delegates from 185 nations in the War Memorial Opera House where President Truman addressed the original framers of the charter 50 years ago. "We must consider major structural changes. The United Nations simply does not need a separate agency with...