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...speech on the Senate floor, the 73-year-old former chief justice of the Alabama supreme court, who has suffered from a series of medical problems, said "the time to pass the torch to another generation is near." Heflin's decision makes it tougher for Democrats to strengthen their 54-46 Senate minority in the 1996 elections (Alabama is now largely Republican). At least three Democrats -- Sens. Sam Nunn of Georgia, Claiborne Pell of Rhode Island, and David Pryor of Arkansas -- may join the retirement list...
Councillors criticized MIT officials for eliminating an institution designed to educate Cambridge residents. In return for MIT's city tax exemption, councillors said the institute should work to strengthen community ties...
...rate hikes would harm the economy, and intervention won't work, what can be done to strengthen the dollar? Some economists argue for doing nothing. "By a process of elimination, I come to the belief that a hands-off policy is best," says Robert Hormats, vice chairman of the international division of Goldman Sachs. "If the Federal Reserve raised rates and it didn't work, then they are really in a quandary" because the central bank would be under pressure to push rates even higher. Massachusetts Institute of Technology economist Rudiger Dornbusch concurs: "We should stop doing something every time...
...Movement to Strengthen Marriage...
...federal law, used a bulldozer to break open a road in a national forest and then filed a criminal complaint against forest-service workers who tried to stop him. Last week, even in the face of the federal suit, the Nevada state senate passed a measure that sought to strengthen the state's claims to federal lands...