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...aide suggests, "is to adopt ((Louisiana Senator)) John Breaux's prescription." Breaux is trying to live up to the injunction of Clinton political adviser ) James Carville, who preaches that a lasting turnaround in Clinton's fortunes depends on rediscovering "what we're about." In other words, Clinton has to tack back to the center; he has to embrace, in law, the proposals that got him elected in the first place. Breaux understands the public's antipathy to taxes of any kind and, for openers, wants the President's $71 billion energy tax to be cut in half. (The shortfall would...
...Testimony from an ATF agent makes plain that Koresh knew of the raid in advance -- and that top ATF officials were alerted to this before it got under way. Top officials, who steadily maintained that they had launched the raid unaware that Koresh had been forewarned, are now shifting tack. "The element of surprise does not mean they don't know you're coming. Only that they can't take control," says ATF intelligence chief David Troy. That explanation does not wash with the agents who anonymously charge that they were knowingly sent into a deathtrap...
Heidi L. Wald is taking a biochemically oriented tack in studying retinal blood flow in diabetic patients...
...tack on 11 penalties, take just 19 shots and line up against a team with fresh legs and a truckload of confidence and the Bulldogs are just chomping at old leather...
...dump sites by 1995. The city has been building artificial islands in Tokyo Bay to hold garbage, but cannot continue to do so without threatening both the fishing and shipping industries. Some critics argue that in its obsession with technology, the government has chosen the wrong tack. Notes Keisuke Amagusa, editor of the journal Technology and People: "The government is focusing on garbage collected and not doing anything to reduce the garbage created...