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...meaning, things start to fall apart. We know, because we're at the end of the book, that the feeling of incompleteness about Ray is all we're going to get. We are still confused by the whole episode with William--surely his death was more than just a stall tactic? Even her jokes are starting to falter ("Berth and birth--she attempted to wrangle the words into a suitable pun, but nothing come.") And now Fisher has given us another invalid to contend with, the unsympathetic, addled Grandpa...
While the Independents seem unlikely to comeout publicily to support a felon's presence on thecouncil, they could stall the resolution by votingto table it or calling for a character right...
...that could play out with another politicalbattle on the city council, because even Walsh'sIndependent allies seem unlikely to stall aresignation resolution for a man in prison...
...certain that the high-speed negotiations will even get under way this week. Odds are that Arafat will eventually make good on his private pledge to send his negotiators to Washington, but he started to stall in public. He called the P.L.O. team home to Tunis for weekend consultations before giving Clinton an official reply. The purpose was probably to patch together another consensus within the P.L.O., but it still delayed a commitment...
...fears virtually guarantees that universal coverage would be phased in slowly -- if it happens at all. "But we wouldn't cry about that," says a senior Administration official. "The President can still declare victory as long as universal coverage is promised at some point." Yet Clinton's plan could stall completely unless Moynihan's worries about the "collateral consequences" are addressed. Inexplicably, Moynihan and Ira Magaziner, the Administration's health-care guru, have yet to talk about employer mandates. "We want to get everything in order first," says a White House aide, who predicts the bipartisan Congressional Budget Office will...