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That kind of calculation was not exactly what the President's staff had in mind when they planned the week-long, multistate health-care blitz. The goal was to jump-start the Administration plan while Congress was out of session -- and in the process put the President back on offense after weeks of answering Whitewater charges. One group of Democratic lobbyists and public relations executives who "want action, not gridlock; problem solving, not partisan bashing" even announced the formation of the Back to Business Committee to make sure that crime and welfare reform and health care did not get drowned...
...ready in June 1992 to publish Putting People First, a slim volume on his entire foreign and domestic program. After a brutal primary season, Clinton was running third in the polls, behind both George Bush and Ross Perot, and the Democrat's aides hoped the book would help jump-start his campaign. But on June 22, as the plates of Clinton's book were literally going on the presses, Little Rock, Arkansas, headquarters called for a halt. One line in a single chart just didn't make sense. The problem was with the health-care numbers...
...participants thought much of what had been accomplished. Yair Hirschfeld, a Middle East history professor, was breaking Israeli law by talking to Ahmed Kriah, head of the P.L.O.'s economics department. But other Israeli free-lance peacemakers had worked their Palestinian connections before in private attempts to jump-start the peace process. None had succeeded. In the hotel Kriah said he was interested in broad bilateral talks with Israeli officials. So was Hirschfeld. That was exciting -- but hardly promising. Recalls Hirschfeld's partner Ron Pundak, a history research fellow: "Nobody believed that out of this funny meeting in London, involving...
...said Faculty legislation that liberalized pass/fail policies caused a jump in grades of nearly one point on the 15-point scale. And the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. helped to jump-start a minority recruiting effort that brought large numbers of Blacks to the College, he said...
...CAME, HE SAW, HE CUT A DEAL. PREVIEWED AS numbingly routine and preliminary, Warren Christopher's first trip to the Middle East as Secretary of State actually succeeded on many levels. On the most important one, he managed to jump-start the Middle East peace process, stalled since December when Israel deported 415 Palestinians suspected of membership in the radical group Hamas...