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...room for compromise, and both sides are pledging a genuine effort to negotiate, there is also a possibility of deadlock. But the battle lines are more fluid than usual: the Administration has artfully put together various ideas into a plan with enough of a something-for-everybody approach to splinter some normally united interest groups...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lots of Second Opinions | 9/27/1993 | See Source »

Members of the Cambridge Alliance, which was formed in part as a splinter group of the CCA, are careful to distance themselves from the new political organization. But Carl Barron, a Central Square business person who was a founder of the alliance, knows enough about the political organization to say that "a new group will be announced in the next week...

Author: By Ira E. Stoll, | Title: Council Campaign Intensifies | 7/13/1993 | See Source »

...creation needs strengthening. They are among a number of legislators who have introduced bills to tighten procedures for political asylum in particular. That, however, would not help much; asylum seekers account for only about 10% of all people coming into the country. Given the tendency of immigration reform to splinter standard voting blocs into unpredictable fragments, legislators are not likely to push for far-reaching change until more of their countrymen demand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Send Back Your Tired, Your Poor . . . | 6/21/1993 | See Source »

...time, I debated someone very heavily on an issue, and did my best. Her response to her friend, after the debate, was, 'Oh, he's crazy,"" says N. Van Taylor '96, president of the Harvard Republican Action Council, a splinter group of the Harvard-Radcliffe Republican Club which focuses on working directly with the GOP and its campaigns...

Author: By David B. Lat, | Title: Where Have All the Liberals Gone? | 6/10/1993 | See Source »

Below the waterline, however, Perot's effort to build a national organization of many millions is springing leaks. By the estimate of some dissidents, there are now about 100 small splinter groups of Perot defectors. Loosely organized so far, they keep in touch with one another through a phone- and-fax network. Roger Lindholm, a Phoenix, Arizona, business consultant, now edits one of several newsletters for disgruntled activists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mutiny in Perotland | 5/24/1993 | See Source »

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