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...protect their evangelical support, the Republicans must stoke the anger of people like Smith. To woo evangelicals, the Democrats must convince them that Clinton and Gore are not only moderate but better able than their rivals to deal with the real problems of the middle class. The stakes in this religious tug-of-war are high: the Southern Baptist Convention alone boasts 15 million members. Four years ago, the white evangelical vote was nearly 20% of the electorate...
...Australia, Asia has never been as important as it is today. It takes almost half of Australia's exports, especially the raw materials that stoke the region's seemingly insatiable appetite for growth. Japan has assumed a huge profile in the Australian economy, with 1 in 10 Australian jobs now in some way generated by Japanese demand, according to Gavan McCormack, an Australian visiting professor at the Kyoto Institute of Economic Research. The transformation has taken place in an astonishingly brief span of time...
...needed help to Boris Yeltsin, U.N. peacekeepers and other new priorities. Ironically, Russian Jews in Israel may not suffer so badly. The influx rate has dropped by half as new arrivals have told their relatives to wait until their job and housing prospects perk up. Israel's government cannot stoke the economy with greenbacks, but it will muddle through adequately with donations and commercial loans until the national elections in June -- or the one next November in the U.S., which could also reshuffle the political deck...
Tsongas, who would increase the tax rate on incomes of $200,000 or more, charges that if Clinton's boons for the middle class worked at all, they would merely stoke consumption rather than encourage savings and investment. Concurs Jeff Faux, president of the Economic Policy Institute, a liberal Washington think tank: "The No. 1 priority should be investment in resources that help the country produce efficiently." In rejecting Clinton's politically flashy but economically pallid proposals, Tsongas has a strong case and gets the better of the argument...
...were thrown together by a stoke of pure luck," says McCarthy. "We were just up talking one morning at four [a.m.] and i was telling SJ about the club... He liked the idea, and we decided to really do something about...