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...Christians are close to winning the whole war; they might do it by '96," says Frank Luntz, the pollster behind the Contract with America. "By playing hardball they may win everything, but hardball also risks losing everything." Reed frankly admits, "We're on the very threshold of having to make that kind of decision. It's fraught with both opportunity and hazard. If we make this decision the wrong way, 20 years from now we're going to look back and regret...
Potential for concentration: High. Enter through the Fogg Museum on weekdays, through the Bush-Reisinger on weekends. An ideal place to study. Rarely crowded, always quiet, few distractions. Unless, of course, the art collection beckons you every time you look towards the threshold at the entrance...
...consensus: no one wants to touch it. With his Ph.D. in economics, Phil Gramm used to declare candidly that fiscal sanity demanded reforming Social Security, even if that meant trimming the benefits of the seniors currently receiving them. Now Gramm is leading the battle to phase out the earnings threshold that limits the benefits of well-off recipients. Wilson, like most of the others, is punting altogether. At a March 30 breakfast thrown for him by Henry Kissinger in New York City, Wilson deflected a question about Social Security: until the public is better educated about the problem, he said...
...structured the deal so that he, now an American citizen, and Diller would together own 76% of the voting control of the stations. Through a long chain of intermediary companies, Murdoch's Australia-based News Corp. would own the remaining 24% of the voting stock, just under the federal threshold...
...events in Tokyo were a clear warning to the world. Terrorism has taken a step across a threshold that security experts have been anticipating with dread for decades. It has been known that there are groups out there that are willing to kill at random. There is proof that they are able to use chemical weapons, and possibly biological and radioactive ones as well, that can destroy far more people than conventional bombs and bullets. Now that nerve gas has been used on ordinary citizens, it may possibly happen again: the fact that terrorists are copycats and hungry for publicity...