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...That tack may play well in New Hampshire, one of the few states without an income tax and the home of former Republican senator Warren B. Rudman, a vehement budget hawk...
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...Wade vote, noting America is "perilously close" to having an anti-abortion majority in the Senate. Yesterday's vote also provoked an uncharacteristically blunt comment from George W. Bush, who called late-term abortion "inhumane," and urged President Clinton to sign the bill. This is a new tack for Bush, but it's one we'll be seeing more of, as TIME Washington correspondent Viveca Novak told CNN. "Bush has been getting a pass from a lot of conservative groups on his specific views on abortion," says Novak. "This trend won't continue much longer ? they'll be looking...
...type it up, or take out the typewriter, and probably wrangle with the ribbon far less than I'd sweat blood over a smug squat printer? But, no, it isn't just efficiency, isn't it the pre-modern satisfaction of unfamiliar physical immediacy--actually crunching out the letters, tack tack tack, not beholden to mysterious will o' wisp electrons? Why are we so far removed? Do you know how all the black boxes in your world operate...
Plants appears to be taking the same tack as Darling. Although he traditionally has been considered a progressive on the council, Presidential Candidate Plants plans to highlight his work on student services--such as the recent decrease in phone rates--during his campaign...