Word: trade-offs
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Bill Clinton's final sales campaign began last Thursday with an anxious burst of phone calls. Yet just five hours before the House would vote on his budget bill, he still lacked a majority. On the phone with Pat Williams, Montana's sole Representative, Clinton found no bargaining leverage. Unlike...
In October 1986 she met her fate at a reception given for Spain's Princess Elena in Tokyo. It was a typical ceremonial trade-off: young women were invited to amuse the pretty Spanish royal and also to be reviewed by the bachelor crown prince. Naruhito liked Masako-san at...
The athletics department's undue influence on college life extends to acadernics. Hundreds of athletes cannot take afternoon classes because of daily practice. Athletes often begrudge the trade-off and who can blame them? Many seminars, tutorials, and sections--the cream of the Harvard crop--take place in the afternoon...
So don't expect the occasional tiffs over Chablis and microchip exports -- which occasionally punctuated the relatively laid-back approach to trade during the Bush and Reagan years -- to be settled quite so amicably in the future. President Clinton has, like many moderate Democrats, publicly straddled the trade-off between...