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...either of the two major parties. But this is an age of budget cutting and hostility toward big government. And it follows three decades of federal programs that seemed to grow at about the same pace as the pathologies of the ghetto. Given that political and conceptual double vise, what agenda would be both achievable and effective...
...most popular politicians. His Democratic Party trounced its pro-China opposition 12 seats to two (out of 20) in this week's elections, which were the most democratic in Hong Kong's history. But as the Democrats gain prominence, they find themselves with few friends, caught in a vise on Bosnian peacekeeper would envy--and determined to press...
...taking as much heat as I was. "You're pressuring me to put aside my military judgment out of political expediency. I've felt this way for a long time!" he said. Suddenly, his tone shifted from anger to despair. "Colin, I feel like my head's in a vise. Maybe I'm losing it. Maybe I'm losing my objectivity...
...move them off their lots. "We're doing our best to keep the volume up by discounting, working on referrals and calling back customers," says Paul Spiegel, manager of a New York City dealership that sells Cadillacs, Buicks, Chevrolets and Geos. Such tactics can put dealers in a vise. "The Fed's rate hikes have dampened the ability of many Chevrolet customers to buy that new vehicle," says Bill Wolf, owner of Wolf Chevrolet/Geo in Belvidere, Illinois. "But it's difficult for a dealer to lessen the effect of the hikes by discounting much further, because there isn't that...
...each day passed, the designation of Gorazde as a U.N.-sanctioned "safe area" seemed increasingly like a cruel joke. Two rounds of NATO air strikes early in the week had done little to ease the Serbs' tightening vise around the besieged Muslim enclave on the Drina River. By Friday, Serb forces had moved artillery and armored vehicles into the surrounding hills and pounded away at the city of 65,000 civilians with howitzers, mortars and tank cannons. On Saturday afternoon, as Bosnian radio reported fretfully that tanks were rolling through Gorazde and firing into residential areas, NATO dispatched six planes...