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...polls already reward what some Republican campaign veterans are calling Dole's "triangulation" strategy. A cbs News survey early last week showed Dole's job-approval rating had risen to 63%, up 11 points from December, while Clinton's was flat at 50% and Gingrich's was up 4 points but still a dismal 33%. It was, of all people, Sonny Bono who had the best explanation of the Speaker's folly. "I always respected his ability to be an artful dodger," said the freshman lawmaker. "He has an instinctive ability to make you believe things are going...
Technology shares. The tech stocks have risen from the ashes before, but right now they seem to be sinking into deeper ash. There is no shortage of merchandise in the computer stores, with more gizmos coming off the assembly line every day. Today's high-tech marvels may be obsolete tomorrow...
...police commissioner, William Bratton, both insist that the reason is their devotion to new ways of doing police business. John DiIulio Jr., a professor of politics and public affairs at Princeton University, says that since the mid-'80s top brass who embrace a similar shift in philosophy have risen to key positions in cities all around the country. "So now you're seeing better policing. Not miracles or panaceas, but better policing...
...revenues. "More people would sell assets, and the U.S. Treasury would collect more taxes," says Stephen Moore, director of fiscal-policy studies at the conservative Cato Institute and author of a new study on the subject. "Every time the rate has been cut, payments by the wealthy have risen substantially...
...fantastic visions of the accord's framers notwithstanding, opposition to Clinton's decision would remain solely upon the lack of a clearly defined national interest in Bosnia. America is a superpower but is has risen to that status not upon a policy of altruism and morality but one of military and economic efficiency. Many cite the misguided reasoning behind the Gulf War describing it as a war for oil, but as such it served American interests. Bosnia has no such resources to offer...