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...might total less than $300 billion, vs. an initial forecast of $322 billion. Still, the need to cut more is endangering Clinton's plan for a $21 billion investment tax credit. Dan Rostenkowski, Congress's reigning strongman on taxes, openly advised the White House to drop it. Press secretary Dee Dee Myers responded, in effect: Maybe...
...from the Great Depression. No matter that the F.D.R. yardstick is arbitrary -- and even foolish given the blessed lack of a galvanizing crisis like the one America faced in 1933. "I think it's been a very productive 100 days . . . we've made terrific progress," White House press secretary Dee Dee Myers said last Wednesday, eight days shy of the mark and a few hours before the President himself said, "There's a lot I have to learn about this town." Myers' optimism aside ("What else could she say," asks a sympathetic White House colleague, "that time flies when...
Police found Tammy Dee Acker's body, stabbed 11 times by robbers, in her father's home in Fleming-Neon, Kentucky. The ghastly murder features prominently in the book A Dark and Bloody Ground, but the literary content wasn't questioned in the lawsuit filed by Tammy's sister, Tawny Acker Hogg. It was the cover, which includes a portrait of Tammy -- without her family's permission. The photo appears with a glossy splotch of red superimposed over her face. "This is pure commercial exploitation designed to sell a product with Acker's photograph," said Joe F. Childers, Hogg...
...just come off a 12-hr. shift at the local Monsanto chemical plant -- but he too seemed in high spirits. He arrived at the same complex that morning to pay a neurology bill for the treatment of his older daughter's headaches. "He was just fine," says receptionist Dee Slack, who told him that that day was her 34th birthday. "We joked because I had forgotten, not my birthday, but the date of it." Griffin then picked up a drink at the Circle K and walked toward the site of a planned pro-life demonstration in front of the clinic...
Aides to Clinton emphasize that he has not reached a decision on any of these new levies. As press secretary Dee Dee Myers observed of Clinton in a PBS documentary broadcast last week, "He likes to float things out there to see what the reaction is." These trial balloons are sure to draw heavy fire, but some are sure to survive, according to several sources familiar with the deliberations...