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...glory instead of goodies. It was near midnight on the night of Aug. 3 when Gingrich faced the prospect of watching the revolution he had plotted for 20 years stall before his eyes. The measure he was pushing through the House was a crucial 1996 spending bill designed to slice everything from summer-jobs programs to home-heating assistance. But in the byzantine way Congress packages its legislation, the bill had become laden with several measures involving abortion, the rare issue where principle promised to trump politics...
...programs they use to shore up a household in crisis. Drug and alcohol counseling, mental-health services, emergency housing funds, day care, homemaker assistance and parenting courses have already been scaled back in most places, and may disappear entirely under the legislation that Congress is considering, which would also slice up to $2.9 billion more from child-protection services nationwide. Republican cost cutters insist that the states can do more with less. "A lot of these agencies built the bureaucracy and have trouble dismantling it," says Florida Republican Representative Clay Shaw, "but the states can't keep up with...
...AMERICANS, WHO haven't had a real raise in years, see their choice as between Newtonian trickle-down economics and Buchananist nativist-protectionism, they'll take the latter. The economy is growing, but almost nothing is trickling down. Even though Buchananism would stifle growth, some might find a larger slice of a smaller pie better than a shrinking slice of a growing pie. Is there a third option? Can we have our growing piece of pie and most of us eat it too? Yes. The basic problem is an oversupply of unskilled workers and a shortage of skilled workers...
...major concession that one diplomat called "the start of the end of the war in the ex-Yugoslavia," separatist Serbs in Croatia agreed to return a slice of oil-rich territory they had seized in 1991. The Eastern Slavonia region bordering Serbia will revert to Croatian control after a one-year transition period, which can be extended to two years by either party, with a U.N. administration during the transition...
...Nielsen survey also seems likely to spark a boom in further research. Niche marketers will want to slice the study's broad demographic categories (gender, age, income) into ever finer segments--something the Net facilitates by allowing marketers to gather data on its users with every click of a mouse. And companies with more global ambitions will want to extend the polling data beyond North America into the more than 160 other countries that can be reached through the Internet...