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...G.O.P. legislators and business allies. Bush was able to salvage a tax cut from the fiasco, but he told TIME last fall that the experience taught him that "the status quo is really powerful. In times when there is not a crisis, it's hard to get people to act boldly." And Bush knows from watching his father what happens when a desire for boldness is applied to a vice-presidential pick. Two words: Dan Quayle...
...legal means to avoid being called up. From 1963 to 1965, he got four student deferments. By the following year, he was married and got a different deferment, as an expectant father. (Yet as Secretary of Defense during the Gulf War, he opposed a bill, the Military Orphans Prevention Act, that would have allowed one member of a two-military-career family to stay back from the front lines if the couple had children.) Soon after, he was 26 years old and no longer draft...
...House member, Cheney quickly started piling up the voting record that Democrats are now using for target practice. In some years it got him a 100% approval rating from the American Conservative Union. Cheney opposed the 1987 reauthorization of the Clean Water Act, a bill that most Republicans supported. He cast one of only eight nay votes. He voted against Head Start funding. He says he did that because of his fears about budget deficits, but Democrats were shooting back last week that those fears didn't prevent him from supporting Reagan's massive military-spending increase...
...props man, while dragging immense Rubbermaid bins full of objects from the back of a van, said that filming proved successful, despite the "terrible rain." Much of the filming was meant to be wrapped up on Wednesday, but Stoltz became somewhat ill and couldn't act that...
...suit, Harvard accuses notHarvard of trademark infringement and unfair competition in violation of the Lanham Act, violating the federal trademark dilution act and trademark cyberpiracy...