Word: gingrichs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...focus-group discussions conducted for the commission last summer. According to the results, which TIME has obtained, the Americans ages 20 to 50 in the focus groups said they had no confidence they would get their money back from Social Security. Hearing this, Kerrey saw an opening to outflank Gingrich on the issue of personal responsibility vs. Big Government, according to a commission source. "Let's ask people, 'What would you prefer, a payroll-tax cut that lets you invest the money, or would you rather trust your government...
Kerrey is sincerely disappointed in Gingrich, a Democratic Senator said, because he has watched him shift over the past year from a private enthusiast of entitlement reform to one who accepted the analysis of Senate Republican leader Bob Dole, who believes that trying to freeze inflation adjustments in 1985 so angered the elderly lobby that it cost Republicans control of the Senate in 1986. In an interview with TIME, Kerrey would say only that if Gingrich is willing to duck Social Security's problems because they are 25 years away, "don't give any speeches saying how concerned...
...outlook, in prescription and also in his penchant for shaving the truth by the clever manipulation of easily grasped images, Newt Gingrich is Reagan's true heir. To appreciate Newt's World, consider just a few of the bombs the new House Speaker lobbed as he issue-surfed through his Dec. 4 appearance on NBC's Meet the Press...
...COMMONSENSE OUTRAGE: To swipe at oppressive government regulations, Gingrich produced a first-aid heart pump. "What I want the American people to understand," he said, is that this pump that was "invented in Denmark increases by 54% the number of people with CPR who get to the hospital with a chance to recover. The Food and Drug Administration makes illegal ((a product)) that minimizes brain damage, increases the speed of recovery and saves money." Using this pump is just "common sense," Gingrich insisted, implying that the FDA's intransigence costs lives...
...fact: The pump Gingrich displayed was invented by two Americans who licensed it to a Danish company that still hasn't applied to the FDA for permission to test it in the U.S. Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, who mistakenly believed they could test the device without FDA approval, conducted some early trials in a hospital environment. The device seemed promising, but cardiologist Michael Callaham, who oversaw the trials, says later field tests on 859 patients "unfortunately showed the pump to be of absolutely no benefit." The FDA stopped the study, says Callaham, "but we talked with...