Word: weaponeering
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...keep the option to fight on principle where necessary. In fact, Clinton aides actually look forward to the first presidential veto -- perhaps to counter G.O.P. moves against Head Start, the Goals 2000 education bill, the Brady bill or attempts to strip the crime bill of the assault-weapons ban. The White House has seen polls and focus-group studies that show voters do not believe Clinton will stand by any principles. Where Clinton draws the line and has fights, says a top White House official, is going to be crucial to the "President's image with the American people...
...Three are getting a new weapon to keep their upstart competitors at bay. In November, barring any last-minute regulatory roadblocks, the Federal Communications Commission will lift the last of the restrictions that for years have prevented the networks from owning more than a small portion of the programming they air and from selling reruns of those shows on the syndication market. The new business opportunities that this opens up, along with an upturn in the advertising market and a healthy profit picture (the three networks combined made roughly $600 million last year, an increase of 30% from 1993, according...
...polite for long. Critics have pummeled the best-selling book by Charles Murray and the late Richard Herrnstein, which blames genetics for the gap between the average I.Q. of whites and blacks. But most of the assailants haven't noticed that perhaps their best weapon lies almost unused right under their noses. At about the same time that Murray threw his Curve, Princeton University Press put out The History and Geography of Human Genes by population geneticists Luca Cavalli-Sforza, Paolo Menozzi and Alberto Piazza. Not only is the tome physically hefty (1,000 pages...
...bill applying Congress's laws to itself -- if, that is, he can manage to convince every single Senator to go along with the idea. On that bill, as with others, if anyone balks it will take a 60-vote majority to move ahead. The filibuster was a weapon the Republicans employed routinely when they were in the minority. Before long, Dole observes dryly, "I assume the Democrats will have discovered you only need 41 votes to hold up things." Senate minority leader Tom Daschle insists that his 47 Democrats are eager to cooperate where they can, but adds...
...means American consumers are enjoying lower prices. Critics deemed this anti- inflationary tonic a bourgeois concern, cold comfort to workers who lost jobs in the process. But 1994 brought a blunt reminder that when we fail to subdue inflation, the Federal Reserve will step in; and its favorite weapon, higher interest rates, will surely cost jobs in the long run. Thus today's gain for consumers may be tomorrow's gain for workers (not to mention the fact that most consumers are workers...