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...taking frequent naps. But against the urgings of Dr. Lee, Bush last week heeded the fears of his political handlers and curtailed a planned 11-day vacation at his oceanfront mansion in Kennebunkport, Me. Instead he scheduled several new campaign trips and ordered his speechwriters to serve up tougher rhetoric for his surrogates and him. "I've been going through a little javelin catching . . . from the political opposition," Bush said Friday. "They've been dishing it out for 10 months. Let's see if they can take it." He also retaliated against at least one ungrateful Republican: word was sent...
...little disgusted with theadministration, that they don't think we'reimportant enough," Cuccarullo says. "I know thingsare tough, but things are a lot tougher for methan they are for Harvard...
George Bush has contributed to the problem by coddling the Deng-Li gerontocracy, thereby provoking Congress to try to replace the Administration's Mr. Nice Guy policy with its own tougher one. It has been 17 years since Bush was U.S. envoy to China, yet he still seems to suffer from the clientitis that sometimes afflicts ambassadors who represent the views of their host governments too well. Three weeks after Tiananmen, the President dispatched National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft and Deputy Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger to kowtow in secret to Deng, then sent them back several months later...
...industries that pollute the air -- but not for motorists. Though the White House last month issued an environmental regulation enabling businesses to sidestep provisions of the 1990 Clean Air Act, the Environmental Protection Agency has now issued a rule that will enforce part of the same measure by requiring tougher emissions tests and more expensive repairs for car owners...
...areas to begin testing emissions from cars and light trucks by next July. That would bring to 177 the number of regions conducting such tests. And in about 80 metropolitan areas with the worst air problems -- home to more than 60 million automobiles -- the test will be made much tougher. The simple tail-pipe gauge that measures exhaust while the engine idles will be gone. The new test requires a high-tech treadmill device with the Jetson-ish name dynamometer. It collects exhaust while the car idles, accelerates and brakes. Then it runs the material through computerized equipment so sensitive...