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Boskin helped inspire Bush's idea of a "flexibile freeze" in government spending to wipe out budget deficits now running at $155 billion a year. An authority on the Social Security system, Boskin argued in a recent book titled "Too Many Promises" that the program should be overhauled to separate its welfare and pension functions...
...eagerly snapping up early copies of Fit to Print, Rosenthal, who has received a six-figure advance to write his memoirs, says he has not read it: "From what I can tell, it's like walking into a mess in the street. You step in it; you try to wipe it from your foot." Ironically, some of the best material in the book comes from Rosenthal, who at first refused to talk to Goulden but ultimately spent 20 hours with the author. "If you call Abe Rosenthal anything," he told a mystified Goulden as their first meeting drew...
Speaking at Harvard Law School's Ames Courtroom, Dershowitz said he opposed using drugs and that he would wipe them out if he could. But he added, "I just don't believe there's any way to interdict them...
Allow livestock farmers to deduct expenses of producing an animal even before it became productive; this would wipe out what has become known as the "heifer...
Avril vowed last week to wipe out the drug traffic. Noting that some officers discharged since the coup have been associated with narcotics, Avril said, "They had blemished the image of the armed forces." Avril has also moved to disarm the remnants of the Tonton Macoutes, the dreaded secret police during the 28-year dictatorship of Francois ("Papa Doc") Duvalier and his son Jean-Claude ("Baby Doc"), who fled in 1986. Although calling himself only an "accidental and provisional President," Avril pledged to prepare the way for an "irreversible democracy." Said he: "I am a missionary." The President obviously expects...