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They were wrong. Last week the senate voted -- unanimously -- not to overturn the ban. What had changed? Citizens swamped lawmakers' offices with calls supporting the ban after Florio stumped the state, appealing to voters to voice their feelings about such weapons: pistols that whip off 10 shots or more from a single clip or the rapid-fire shotgun that drug dealers like to call "street sweepers...
...opposition is mobilizing too. Republican leaders will blast Clinton as a tax-happy promoter of "class warfare," in the words of House minority whip Newt Gingrich. The United Seniors Association vows to have its members send 1 million letters to Washington protesting any tinkering with Social Security. But business groups, while hardly enthusiastic about higher corporate taxes, have been holding their fire; there are some hints that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce may wind up endorsing the plan. For all those who have spent years bemoaning deficits, the opportunity to do more than complain about them is finally here...
...group advocates got a chance to pitch their favorite nostrums to the President-elect. It provided the public with an exhaustive review of the tough choices on taxes and spending that face Clinton and the country. And it also allowed Clinton to present himself in a flattering light: attentive, whip-smart and lip-bitingly empathetic; the reading glasses perched soberly at the end of his bulbous nose lent a touch of presidential gravitas to his boyish looks...
...someone offered Harvard University the chance to save millions of dollars on electricity, you'd think President Neil L. Rudenstine wouldn't be able to whip out his pen fast enough to cross the t and dot the i's of his presidential name, right...
...sickness as they try to grapple with new ideas like demokratizatsiya and privatizatsiya or attempt to figure out what makes brokery different from raketeery. (It is instructive that the Russian language has no words of its own for these borrowed concepts.) Still others shout for Yeltsin to crack the whip and get the old nags moving faster. But however bumpy the ride, if reform is really to take hold, every Russian must somehow arrive at an internal alteration of his or her mental outlook, a fresh landscape of the mind, to suit the new system. In the meantime, the troika...