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...warned Clinton that he should avoid embracing the mainstream bill lest he be identified with another failure. At the same time, Leon Panetta, the new White House chief of staff and a veteran of Congress, warns that the President must not write off the efforts of key lawmakers. Upshot: Clinton is left to cheerlead in hoarse whispers from the sidelines...
...President at this point in his term in four decades. His disapproval rating is 52%, the highest of his presidency, attributable to the wear and tear of congressional fights over crime and health care, the wiggles of his foreign policy and the lingering suspicions about Whitewater. The upshot may be this: more of those questioned say they would vote for a Republican (40%) over a Democrat (38%) in their congressional district...
...Denver, for one, is determined to head off a reprise of last year, when a string of vicious youth crimes unhinged the city's calm. The upshot is an activities budget of $6 million, twice the amount allotted a year ago. Recreation programs -- from swimming and camping to video production -- have grown from 900 last year to 1,300 this summer...
...upshot has been a furious explosion -- over age, not geography. Thirty- year-old males watched their premiums soar 170%, according to the Council for Affordable Health Insurance, while men aged 60 enjoyed a 45% cut. The rate hike for 30-year-old women was 82%, and women twice their age saw rates slashed by a quarter. Mutual of Omaha, the only insurer to continue extending coverage to New York individuals after the plan went into effect, watched with frustration as 43% of its customers dropped their health coverage and the average age of its clientele edged upwards from 41.5 years...
...ensuing conversation, Levitt asked, "How can you guys not agree on this?" Retorted Berrard: "What would you say if you were advising Blockbuster?" That gave Levitt the opening he needed to persuade Berrard to * start talking again to Viacom. The upshot: Viacom finally agreed to a revised collar that would compensate Blockbuster shareholders for any drop in Viacom stock over a one-year period. That satisfied Blockbuster, which had originally insisted on compensation for any stock drop at the closing of the merger...