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Organizers and participants see the panel as a possible springboard for action...
...Democratic Leadership Council -- a centrist group that President Clinton helped start while a governor, then used as a springboard to the presidency -- today warned that many American voters see him as a big-government liberal and not the "New Democrat" he campaigned as in 1992. The evidence? Clinton's own pollster, Stan Greenberg, ran a national poll and focus-group interviews for the DLC right after the midterm elections. The results: More than half of the growing bloc of independent voters --- who now make up 30 percent of the electorate -- clearly repudiated the Democrats and Clinton's term...
Harvard fans should especially pay attention to those comments, at last year's scrimmage saw the Crimson's defense shaky at points in the 7-4 victory. But that game proved a springboard for the season, as Harvard defense became known as one of the best in the country by season...
...great-grandson of company founder Henry Ford, William Clay Ford Jr., was named to succeed his father as chairman of the finance committee of Ford Motor Co. The new position, controlling the firm's purse strings, is widely seen as a springboard to eventual chairmanship of the world's second-largest automaker...
Just as women's groups used the Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas hearings as a springboard to educate the public about sexual harassment, they are now capitalizing on the Simpson controversy to further their campaign against domestic violence. Advocates for women are pressing for passage of the Violence Against Women Act, which is appended to the anticrime bill that legislators hope to have on President Clinton's desk by July 4. Modeled on the Civil Rights Act of 1964, it stipulates that gender-biased crimes violate a woman's civil rights. The victims of such crimes would therefore be eligible...