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Clinton is more willing to let corporations figure it out themselves. His argument is that in an era of fast technological change and slimmer government, business will profit by embracing a broader mission. In a speech at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio, last March, the President said, "What is the role of business in this new era? It should, first and foremost, do well, make money so you can hire people and contribute. But it should, whenever possible, do well in a way that strengthens families and grows the middle class...
...Delicate Balance opened on Broadway in 1966, four years after Virginia Woolf; it's a slimmer, more mysterious work. Tobias and Agnes are a middle-aged couple whose orderly suburban lives are shaken one evening by the arrival of their old friends Harry and Edna. The visitors have fled their home to escape some nameless fear. It soon appears that they plan to move...
...mutation in this gene. Barbara Cady, for one, welcomes the notion that she and others become fat not because they lack willpower or moral character but because they have a biochemical abnormality. "I'm not lazy or unintelligent," she says. "I do as many of the right things as slimmer people. But something's going on in my body that makes controlling my weight more difficult than it is for everyone else...
...absence of hard cash will impact many other facets of daily life besides begging in public places. Wishing wells won't glisten with scores of pennies, wallets will grow slimmer and no longer will people experience the momentary pleasure of finding a coin on the ground. But panhandling is the facet that deserves the attention of all levels of government before money inevitably becomes a completely electronic entity...
Greed cuts both ways, of course. Six Labrador retriever breeders say they have filed a class action against the AKC and the Labrador Retriever Club Inc. for changing the breed standard to favor slimmer, longer-legged animals over the traditional stockier, shorter ones -- thereby devaluing the out-of-date model. And some owners of a relatively rare dog called the Havanese, which arrived in this country from Cuba in the mid-1970s, are actively seeking AKC recognition, despite worries by other owners that they are inviting overbreeding and genetic problems...