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...economic growth. Unfortunately, since everything he does and says should be geared toward repressing the conclusion that he is too slick for high office, Clinton is still loath to confess the change. He continues to deny the obvious; his advocacy of a middle-class tax-rate cut was a sop to New Hampshire's strapped primary voters, and his scaling back of that promise today merely confirms a new and more sober political and economic stance for the fall effort...
...insiders, served partly to reduce the potential payoff for improper trades. Now when insiders decide to unload their portfolios, they can get a bigger bang for the buck by exercising their options and immediately selling the stock. The change in the law, according to some securities experts, was a sop to Big Business. Says Levy: "The SEC has wiped an entire class of violations off the books. It didn't stop the abuses; it just pretends they don't exist." Insiders are already cashing in. During the first three months of this year, insiders exercised $1 billion worth of options...
...legitimate moral precept from the Bible or the Fathers, we discover all moral matters to be doubtful. And by the Rev. Baxter's precept we discover that, in all doubtful things, we are entitled to liberty. How pleasant a license is this doubt, and what a well-deserved sop for the distressed conscience...
Choosing Pugo may have seemed like a sop to restless conservatives, but appointing General Boris Gromov as Deputy Interior Minister showed that Gorbachev intends to put military muscle behind his calls for law-and-order. Gromov, who commanded the last contingent of Soviet forces to leave Afghanistan, has figured prominently at times in rumors that the military was plotting a coup. Gromov has denied the possibility of such a move, and he downplayed suggestions that his combat experience alone earned him his new job. But the connection was too evident to ignore. "Gromov is a reliable trigger puller," says William...
Gorbachev may have targeted Starkov as a sop to conservatives, then moved against his real target: Afanasyev. Said Vitali Korotich, editor in chief of the liberal weekly Ogonyok: "Gorbachev is an experienced politician who does things in combinations." Another element in this combination may be a new press law under consideration by the Supreme Soviet. The measure, which has been welcomed by liberals, purports to abolish censorship and provides for creation of independent publications with none of the organizational sponsorship now required...