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...presidency, it would help him claim a mandate for his programs. The TIME/CNN poll asked voters if his election should be interpreted as public support for his more controversial proposals, including raising taxes on the wealthy, providing college loans to all qualified students, starting a national health-insurance scheme and making support of abortion rights a test for the appointment of Supreme Court Justices. By large majorities, even voters who now prefer the other candidates said Clinton's election would constitute popular support for those ideas. After one of the toughest and most serpentine campaigns in memory, Clinton would have...
...convinced that we need more gasoline taxes. In my home state of New York, we pay a total of 44 cents a gallon and Mom and Dad agree with me that this is way too much already. There's no way they'll sign on for old Ross's scheme, which brings me to my second point...
Dingman also said that, under such a scheme, the way students choose their blockmates may be severely restricted. Students would have to choose between rooming with a friend not from 29 Garden St. and getting a priority housing choice, he said...
...hormones too, since they are marketed by evil, male- dominated multinational corporations. The only point of agreement between Sheehy and Greer is that menopause is a soul-shattering change, a passage to a new life -- in Sheehy's more upbeat view, a stern confrontation with death; in Greer's scheme, a time to put aside worldly things (coffee and tea as well as sex) and take up witchcraft or, depending on one's tastes, religion...
...week into a probe of its own FBI director for ethics violations, Barr's Justice Department must now endure the attentions of an "independent counsel," drafted by Barr to investigate the roiling dispute between his department and the CIA over whether the government obstructed the investigation of an illegal scheme to funnel $4 billion to the Iraqi regime before the invasion of Kuwait...