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...onto the national scene with the announcement of a new product line: two novel types of exploding bullets, both designed to kill on impact with thousands of razor-sharp fragments. One type, the company's chief executive claimed, was specially built to pierce police bulletproof vests. Following a public uproar, Signature said it would hold off producing the vest-piercing bullet as a "responsible" gesture. That left many industry experts wondering whether the super "Rhino" ammunition was ever meant to shatter anything more than the firm's obscurity...
...welfare reform proposal announced last Friday is causing an uproar in the National Governors Association. Vermont Governor Howard Dean, the Democratic chairman of the NGA, today lashed out at Republican members for making a deal with the Congressional members of their own party on welfare reform. The GOP proposal would cut several federal programs and give cash directly to states. Stephanie Carter, a Dean spokeswoman, told TIME Daily that Dean objected most strenuously to the fact that the Republican delegation had "signed off on a platform separate and on its own." A spokesman for the Democratic Governors Association agreed...
That provoked an uproar at the State Department and the National Security Council, both of which thought Perry had agreed to something quite different at the White House meeting. "Perry stepped in a cesspool with that confederation idea," fumed a top official. "That's a code word for annexation. Our policy is to uphold certain basic principles," including Bosnia's sovereignty. Christopher called in reporters to deny any change in U.S. policy. National Security Adviser Anthony Lake delivered a speech in Princeton, New Jersey, siding with State and repudiating any notion of Serb confederation, though he admitted...
...Faculty Uproar...
Since Herrnstein died in September, Murray is facing the new round of uproar alone. Not that he's sheepish. After Reaganites discovered his 1984 book Losing Ground, which said poverty programs actually worsened the problems of the poor, he became the sociologist liberals loved to hate. More recently he introduced himself into the debate on welfare reform by insisting that unwed motherhood, not joblessness, was the key problem. His solution was to get rid of welfare altogether. Murray says when he and his co-author started work on The Bell Curve, "((Herrnstein)) said to me, 'You know...