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...making further gains, however, were not improved by last week's off-year elections. Clinton campaigned hard for New York City Mayor David Dinkins and New Jersey Governor Jim Florio, but both lost. That may cause many Democrats to ask, in effect: Why should I buck anti- NAFTA sentiment in my district to please a President whose ability to help me win re-election is suspect? One Congressman who admits he found the results "unsettling" is Robert Torricelli of New Jersey, a state where labor is strong and every other Democratic Representative has come out against NAFTA. Torricelli says...
...There is a fairly uniform sentiment in theChemistry department," Verdine said, "that we'reunder a great deal of responsibility to try to getacross as much information to the students as wecan under a great deal of time pressure. Thatresponsibility supersedes the need to observe thesorts of holidays that the federal governmentdecides...
...major factors are in Clinton's favor. Politicians almost unanimously agree that public sentiment so strongly favors some kind of health-care reform that many Congress members dare not run for re-election in 1994 without having voted to enact any. And if Clinton's plan has yet to command a majority, the opposition has not yet coalesced behind any alternative. Those proposed run the gamut from a conservative Republicans' bill that would merely provide tax credits for people buying health insurance, to the liberal Democrats' single- payer plan; neither has a chance of passing...
Stevens is the narrator of Kazuo Ishiguro's 1988 novel, The Remains of the Day, a drama so delicate that it touches the reader deeply without applying the pressure of sentiment. The story runs on parallel tracks: the years before World War II, when Stevens worked for his beloved Lord Darlington, an aristocrat who falls into an alliance with the Nazis; and the late '50s, when ! Stevens seeks out Miss Kenton in hopes she will return as housekeeper and, perhaps, something more. In his own ornate, unknowing words, Stevens condemns himself as the English version of a "good German...
Although this noble sentiment is fundamentally well-grounded, the strategy is extremely inefficient. After all, the council has inertia on its side. The true solution to the waste of money should be clear: permanent dissolution of the entire council. And, to be democratic about the whole affair, let's put it to a vote...