Word: superhighway
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...century. His plan for education focuses on tax breaks for college tuition and literacy for America's children. Unfortunately, the highlight of his record only amounts to a Department of Education flyer introducing school uniforms. To frame his proposals, Clinton invokes the education panacea, otherwise known as the information superhighway...
...that afflicts the black community on racist government plots. But this time it is not so easy to write off the talk as paranoid mumbo jumbo for two reasons: it springs, for once, from a credible source and is being spread via a new black lane on the information superhighway...
Four years ago, Bill Clinton got a big boost when a group of Silicon Valley's captains announced their support for him over George Bush. Now, however, cyberexecutives are considering any campaign drive for Clinton to be, well, a virtual goner. Dismissing Clinton's info-superhighway pep talks as showboating, the industry is focusing on a menu of grievances, including increased corporate taxes, burdensome accounting-reform proposals and, most of all, Clinton's failed veto of a law making it easier for companies to prevail in securities-fraud lawsuits. Silicon Valley successfully pressed for a congressional override, maintaining that...
President Clinton, with the whole federal bureaucracy at his disposal, has the most opportunities to trade favors for cash. You might remember how, just after the 1992 campaign, Al Gore was enthusiastically promoting an "information superhighway," to be built by the government like the interstate highway system in the 1950s. But on December 21, 1993, Gore gave a speech announcing that "unlike the interstates, the information highways wil be built, paid for, and funded by the private sector...." Coincidentally, on December 21, 1993, the Democratic National Committee received a $50,000 check from MCI, $15,000 from NYNEX...
...which case the $245 billion tax cut in the G.O.P. budget plan is a potential superhighway. The challenge for Clinton and the Democrats is to convince people that it is not only too much of a good thing, meaning too large for a time of budget deficits, but also too much of a bad thing, meaning heavily skewed in favor of the well favored. The Administration's response was summed up by Clinton last month when he vetoed the Republican budget: "While making such devastating cuts in Medicare, Medicaid and other vital programs, this bill would provide huge tax cuts...