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...Corporation announced last week it woulduphold a proposed one percent reduction in theUniversity's contribution to the faculty pensionfund. The Corporation did, however, soften aproposed ceiling on postretirement health carecosts...
Throughout the week's drama, the man Dole wants to replace kept a low profile. Though Clinton and his advisers have long regarded the amendment as a potentially dangerous gimmick that would make it harder for government to use its spending power to soften recessions, the President tried to distinguish his opposition to the amendment from his support for "the impulses that are giving rise to it." He also pursued a low-key campaign of quiet calls to wavering Democrats, offering them a chance to sit down with Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin and Budget Director Alice Rivlin to work through...
...took us out of the race," says Clinton adviser Paul Begala, who worked in Doggett's campaign. "I would describe him as vicious and ruthless." But Gramm will need more than a simple instinct for the jugular to win in 1996. Though he has rejected any attempts to soften his image in the past, his latest round of speeches include inspirational stories about his wife Wendy, a third-generation Korean American, who served as head of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission...
...Clinton Administration made another strategic retreat today before the House GOP juggernaut, this time proposing to soften provisions of the Endangered Species Act. Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt released a set of 10 guidelines that would "balance endangered species protection with economic development," including a proposal to forgo enforcement in single-home residential tracts, or on issues that affect areas smaller than five acres. The plan also requires more scientific study before declaring species in danger and gives states and local officials more discretion. The House passed a tougher bill Friday by a vote of 277-141 that would require federal...
...anything momentarily unpopular, like health reform or help for the poor, is to risk being momentarily reviled. So far, Hillary Clinton's responses to the inevitable flak have been painful to witness. She dishonors her whole sex when she apologizes, runs back to the image molders or threatens to "soften" herself to the consistency of a milk-dipped chocolate-chip cookie. Personally, and speaking from the shelter of relative anonymity, I would be honored to have Newt Gingrich, even by proxy, call me a bitch...