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Given the box they'll be in, what are states to do? In the next recession, with demands on Medicaid rising and the feds saying, "That's your problem," the states will be the site of an awful showdown. The powerful elderly and nursing-home lobbies will be fighting for Medicaid expansions to serve seniors. The only pot of money big enough to raid will be education, a state's biggest expense, which averages 30% of state spending. If state legislatures bow to pressure and steal from the classroom, communities will have to raise property taxes to protect their local...
...constitution that it is virtually impossible for Deputies to remove Yeltsin from office. But a solid Yeltsin opposition with a majority in the new parliament could obstruct government-reform policies. The result would be a return to the debilitating power struggle that triggered Yeltsin's dramatic 1993 showdown with the old parliament...
Harvard is a team with something to prove. Last weekend, the Crimson's hopes for a second round showdown against defending national champion Connecticut were shattered following its first round 80-74 loss to Duquesne...
...deliver soaring rhetoric. This year he has given several magnificent speeches: in the wake of the Oklahoma City bombing, Clinton spoke words of comfort and pledged that the justice would be served: at Rabin's funeral, Clinton eloquently described the greatness of the slain prime minister; throughout the budget showdown, Clinton's radio addresses framed the argument as a decision between a future of e pluribus unum or a free for all in which special interests dominate...
...Crimson is gearing up for the February 4 showdown against its toughest competitors, the pesky Princeton Tigers...