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Such cascading budget crises spell big political trouble in the next few years for the 31 Republican Governors. They have thus far kept mum about their anxieties, afraid that going public would stall their party's momentum in Washington. That can't last. Rising G.O.P. star Christine Whitman of New Jersey, up for re-election in 1997, could be the first to face the consequences. She says she supports the block-grant approach "philosophically" but wants "a glide path that's doable," not the downshift Gingrich has in store, which would take New Jersey from 10% growth...
Holsteins are hardworking Danish cows who make it possible for well-disciplined families to earn a living from ground not good enough to grow corn or soybeans. Dairying is not a sentimental line of work, however, and a cow's productivity chart hangs by the stall where she can see it: she knows that when her output declines she's dead meat; retraining will not be an option. Dogs and cats, when hunting became too hard, retrained as house pets, but a large hoofy animal that chews its own vomit will never be welcome in the American home...
Duehay says he has drafted legislation which he hopes will stall the bank's plans to tear down what he calls a historic site...
...Mururoa's buildings with Greenpeace stickers and graffiti, slip notes to some of the press people invited by the French to witness the explosions, write a few postcards of Mururoa and drop them into the PX mail slot, get the French to search for them, and perhaps stall the first test. The stunt is planned as a classic Greenpeace "action," a dead-serious, nonviolent prank executed at considerable peril...
Reflecting the changes in the kitchen stall, the menu has more than 30 new items...