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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hearings. Public imaginations abetted public nerves as one envisioned an NBA populated by Michael Jordans, a music world consisting of multiple John Teshes, and sheep of the ideological variety. Meanwhile, at the other end of the barnyard, the discovery of mad-cow disease (a more colorful, thus emotionally agitating term than bovine spongiform encephalopathy) had real men ordering sushi...
...possible sparks. Their assumption that further precautions involving the fuel tanks were unnecessary has historically been supported by the FAA, whose sometimes contradictory mandate requires it to tend both the airline industry's safety and its financial health. Thus a year ago, when the safety board recommended four short-term protective measures focused on the fuel tanks, the agency politely ignored them...
...thing, Clinton has said too often that the initiative's work is a top priority of his second term. But, more concretely, it has turned into the Initiative That Ate the Executive Branch. There are 30 people assigned to it, more than work on the entire White House domestic-policy operation. And that's not counting White House officials, like deputy chief of staff Sylvia Mathews, who spend long hours managing it, or the Cabinet secretaries and federal employees who have been ordered to come up with projects that deal with race...
...real test for Japan is whether the Old Guard bureaucrats and politicians still holding power have the courage to make bold, immediate repairs. Hashimoto, the first Prime Minister in a decade to last more than 18 months, came into his second term last year boasting that he would reform the system or "explode into a ball of fire." He proclaimed the most sweeping slate of changes Japan has seen in a century, committing himself to a six-point program to reduce the size of government, liberalize financial markets and unravel the country's byzantine web of economic regulations...
...Yeltsin's illness proves more severe than the Kremlin has admitted, uncertainty about the entire nation's immediate and long-term health will quickly kick in. Voices will be raised calling for the presidential succession to be clarified; at the moment the only mechanism is essentially for the president to declare himself incapable of governing. Yeltsin's closest aides will circle the wagons around him, forward movement in politics and economic change will come to a halt, and the debilitating struggle to succeed Yeltsin will gather force...