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Clinton will have a harder time persuading both parties to wean themselves from the special-interest cash spoiling American politics. He needs to make good on his 11th-hour promise to fix the system, partly because he knows the Republicans will dangle John Huang in his face until he can get it done. But Clinton will first have to persuade his own party to break its addiction to soft money, the large contributions from fat cats that go to "party-building" activities. It is a measure of Clinton's lack of seriousness about reform that he simply informed his allies...
...late afternoon sky is as solemn as it was in the morning. The town is quieter than yesterday. Tonight people will begin to wean themselves from the disaster reports and tune in to the excessively happy opening ceremonies of the Olympics in Atlanta. Flipping between channels, they will occupy antipodal worlds. Come the weekend, they will take their boats out on the bay, and eventually they will speak less and less of Wednesday night...
...Dust Bowl of the 1930s prompted Congress to enact protections for afflicted farmers. Ironically, some safeguards began being phased out this year, as the 1996 drought was building. The new Freedom to Farm Act represents an attempt to wean farmers from price supports and occasional expensive supplemental federal disaster-relief bills with a system of fixed cash subsidies and low-cost, $50-per-crop insurance. Given these benefits, the reasoning went, farmers would be able to tide themselves over rough times without requiring ad hoc handouts. Almost no one thought this theory would be subjected to such a stern test...
...contractors like McDonnell Douglas is worsening as foreign countries develop their own competing products. "In Europe, where the U.S. aviation industry controls about one-third of the market, countries are starting to get together and build more planes on their own," Graff notes. "Overseas buyers are gradually trying to wean themselves from the American market." -->