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Other "gross miscalculations" included Moscow's panicky fear of Jewish emigration; failure to realize that breaking diplomatic relations with Israel in 1973 would nearly wipe out Soviet influence in the Middle East; refusal to negotiate an early ban on antiballistic missiles and placement of SS-20 intermediate-range missiles in Europe; and a habit of "fixating" on U.S. military research...
Neither that record nor that rhetoric would seem to make him the natural standard bearer for the G.O.P. warriors who rode into Washington last fall promising to wipe out the very practices that Dole has spent the past 34 years mastering inside the Beltway. "There are so many now who grew up fighting a bully government," says Georgia Senator Paul Coverdell, who, though 56, is part of the newer generation in Congress because he was elected in 1992. "We had to overcome it." By contrast, Coverdell notes, Dole came of age when "government was seen more as a facilitator...
Meanwhile, substantial reductions in Medicare and NIH subsidies for teaching and research could wipe out much of the benefit from these economies so painfully achieved. "We look at cuts as unfunded mandates,'' says Mark Laret, deputy director of the Medical Center at ucla, which stands to lose some $16 million. "We are supposed to provide all the same services and do it with less. Medicare, to its credit, is the only payer that contributes anything to the cost of medical education, and that has got to change.'' UCLA has already talked with several local hmos about a premium...
...compiled in one place. The biggest impact will probably come in the courtroom. These 10,000 pages will give a lot of ammunition to lawsuits against the tobacco companies." A Brown & Williamson spokesman accused the AMA of engaging in "a cherry-picking exercise" in pursuit of its agenda to wipe out smoking...
...distant bleachers was banging a drum slowly to wake up either the offense or the ghosts of the past. George Vukovich stood where Rocky Colavito once stood. The 5,000 people rattling around the 74,208-seat Temple of Doom looked as if they wanted to wipe the stupid grin off the face of Chief Wahoo, the mascot whose very name was a cruel joke both to Native Americans and to Cleveland fans. There was talk of moving the franchise somewhere else, somewhere nice...