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Nevertheless, it must be frustrating for any President to watch the Fed playing party pooper. That's why Clinton deserves great credit for supporting Alan Greenspan -- just as Ronald Reagan's best economic deed was standing by without protest as Fed chairman Paul Volcker wrung inflation out of the economy in the early 1980s. Clinton's fortitude is even more admirable, since Greenspan is trying to avoid a future bout of inflation, not cure a current one. And according to Woodward, Clinton's political advisers all think Greenspan is the devil incarnate, so Clinton gets extra points for resisting them...
...fact, one main reason airlines have made money at all is the concessions they have wrung from their workers. Thanks to a three-year agreement to reduce employees' pay 12%, the once deeply troubled Northwest Airlines has saved $886 million. American, United and Delta are all turning profits, thanks to layoffs and other cost-cutting measures, like the sale of nonessential assets, such as flight kitchens. These carriers all registered millions in third-quarter profits, with labor concessions playing a significant role. Says an impatient Denise Hedges, the head of American's 21,000-member flight attendants' union: "We have...
...Just before last week's meeting, Commission officials approved a plan to sell Eisenhuttenstadt to Italian steelmaker Riva and save existing jobs, if Bonn scaled back its original $650 million subsidy proposal for upgrading. Because that plan would feature a new 900,000-ton hot rolling mill, the Commission wrung nearly 500,000 tons of compensating capacity out of plants elsewhere in eastern Germany...
...politician does vote up or down on a measure; but a simple yes-or-no, in this case on Clinton's massive deficit reduction package, does not capture what concessions a particular lawmaker wrung with his or her vote, what misgivings he or she expressed...
...Gary Beach, who bears a more than casual resemblance to the young Ronald Reagan. There is also an eerie familiarity to the Supreme Court Justices as depicted in giant caricature masks (one is black and another female, emphatically not reality in 1931), and an oblique gay inflection has been wrung out of one bit of dialogue. But most of the performers make no headline reference -- the dim Vice President is plump and scruffy, not boyishly cute -- and the big production numbers feel almost antique...