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Three months later, Clinton was ahead in the polls but losing traction on health care. Top advisers noticed that he sounded confused on the stump, skipping back and forth between reform plans without clarifying which one he was for. Health-care groups with various agendas bombarded Clinton's Little Rock campaign headquarters with faxes charging him with backing away from the issue. In fact, the campaign was in a deliberate straddle. Clinton's aides, led by James Carville and pollster Greenberg, told him health care was important but cautioned him that the less specific he was, the better. After...
...healthy freights are pumping their good fortune back into the economy. Toward the end of the year, the first eight of 350 new alternating-current (AC) traction locomotives will be delivered to the Burlington Northern. The order, worth $675 million to General Motors and Siemens AG, is the largest for rail equipment in history. Though changing from DC to AC (engine wheels are driven by electric motors that take current generated by the locomotives' diesels) is not sexy science, the improved power and pull mean three of these 4,000-h.p. monsters can do the work of five older ones...
John Woo's last Hong Kong movie, the action-traction Hard Boiled, was basically Die Hard in a hospital. A zillion bad guys are terrorizing the place, and our indestructible cop hero must mow them down, holding a bazooka- size pistol in one hand -- and a newborn child in the other. No problem. Blam! and a villain's blood splatters a maternity-ward window. Boom! and a few more miscreants eat carpet. Surveying the scene, the cop shields the baby's | eyes and says jauntily, "Hey, X-rated action...
...presidency nears the 100-day mark, Clinton is losing some traction. After winning speedy approval of his overall budget plan in March, Clinton is beset by distractions. In the middle of the stimulus fight last week, the White House had to confirm reports that Hillary Rodham Clinton's health-care task force was considering a new, value-added tax to pay for the $60 billion in reforms her team is contemplating. Just as millions of Americans prepared to file their income tax returns, a USA Today report quoted Shalala as saying that the health-care task force was examining some...
McPhee concluded his project at a good time. Brown's interests are topical, not topological. Even dedicated subscribers to the old New Yorker can be forgiven if their eyes lost traction on McPhee's exotic terrain and skidded to the cartoons. Those who stayed with "Annals" soon learned to appreciate the enterprise. McPhee is a master of expository prose...