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...agree that the $3.35-an-hour minimum wage, which has not been raised since 1981, needs a boost. But a conflict is brewing over just how far to hike it. Had the wage kept pace with inflation, it would stand at $4.46 an hour today. Bush has threatened to veto any bill that provides a base rate of more than $4.25. Last week the House passed a measure that would gradually increase the wage to $4.55 by 1992. The Senate, scheduled to take up the issue next week, is unlikely to adopt a rate any closer to Bush's limit...
Hightower won a test of strength last week in the state senate, which passed a bill to extend the life of his agency. The acid test may come when Republican Governor Bill Clements, no Hightower fan, decides whether to sign the measure. A veto could send Hightower packing to his backyard tomato-and- okra patch. But the feisty populist is unlikely to moderate his radical position. As he has said, "There's nothing in the middle of the road but yellow stripes and dead armadillos...
Before casting his decisive veto in public, Nunn declared that Tower's "record of alcohol abuse cannot be ignored" and that he could find no evidence that the nominee had sought help to correct it. Nunn also judged some of the Texan's conduct with women to have been "indiscreet." Once again, a man's public career had been indelibly tainted by reckless personal behavior...
...lobbying muscle to persuade Congress, which can overrule the council's decisions, to shoot down Clarke's plan. "It's another attempt by the D.C. government to put the blame on somebody else for its failure to deal with violent crime," says N.R.A. assistant general counsel Richard Gardiner. A veto is no cinch: only twice in the past 14 years has Congress vetoed a law enacted by the district...
Berge retorted that he never asked any such thing, only a veto power over Barenboim's decisions. "I have absolutely no interest in artistic control of the new opera," he told TIME. Nonetheless, he argues that Barenboim's choice of classic works is "elitist." Says he: "The program established by Barenboim . . . satisfies neither President Mitterrand nor me." But he puts considerable blame for the furor on the maestro's exalted pay: "I offered Barenboim a salary of 4 million francs (($667,000)), but he would not accept anything less than 5 million...