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...would this bill, in fact, end welfare as we know it? The truth is, nobody knows, because nothing close to reform on this scale has ever been attempted. The current draft gives official sanction to a national laboratory experiment, under way in many states, that tests the degree to which shifting incentives and sanctions can change people's behavior with respect to marriage, childbearing and work. States would receive a block grant for all welfare expenditures, set, in general, at this year's level, with added money promised only in the event of recession or unusual population growth. Federal money...
...knows it, given the hurdles he faces--financial, logistical--just to mount a third-party bid. He now has less than a week in which to woo at least 10% of the Reform Party's 1.3 million petition signers. If enough of them put his name on their draft ballots, he will be invited to speak at the party convention Aug. 11 in Long Beach, California. Then participants will vote by mail, phone or E-mail. Independent monitors whom Perot has hired but whom he will not name will tally the results, and the winner will be announced...
...become a commonplace to note that voters treated Bill Clinton in 1992 the way Wall Street treats a stock. They discounted his womanizing and his dissembling about the draft because they liked his energy and intelligence, and the fact that he wasn't George Bush. So far, at least, voters also seem to be discounting the insistence of his foes that Clinton's character renders him unfit to retain the presidency. If some of his own men begin to make that case, however, it's a whole new ball game...
...Epstein had a file?" Hammer asked. "Epstein didn't even burn his draft card. Epstein is a moderate...
Scorsune awaited the draft results with teammate and high school classmate Prestifilippo, who was picked by the Islanders...