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...America's already shallow pool of savings, which by some estimates keeps interest rates percentage points higher than they would be under a balanced budget. Tear up Uncle Sam's credit card, and interest rates drop, allowing the private sector to grow as the government retreats. "What's at stake is nothing less than rekindling the American Dream," says Matthew Miller, a former Clinton budget official who quit this year over the White House's refusal to continue cutting the deficit...
...economy is inextricably linked with Mexico's, and increasingly with other American countries, is the true measure of NAFTA's success. The nightmarish debt-crisis of the 1980s, which left most Latin American economies devastated and smoldering, is unlikely to be repeated. There is now too much at stake for North Americans for summary abandonment...
...Republican Contract with America-with significant potential rewards for the interests the members represented. Time's Washington bureau chief, Dan Goodgame, says that story is a perfect demonstration of Jeff's exceptional gifts: "Who pushes for a law, who blocks it, who gets hurt, whose interests are at stake-that's what Jeff looks...
...there is not sufficient evidence to suggest that Mack's intellectual idiosyncrasies have cost his patients good treatment. In the end, what seems to be at stake is the simple fact that Mack's radically un-orthodox views are an embarrassment to fair Harvard. Dean Tosteson and the Harvard Medical School should feel free to take issue with Mack's findings. His job, however, must not be threatened...
...predecessor, Hanselman, agrees, arguingthat administrators are largely skeptical of aCouncil that they believe does not adequatelyrepresent the student body. "I think when thefirst popularly elected president goes intoUniversity Hall," he added, "the administratorswill put more stake in his or her opinions...