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...White House admits it has no grand strategy for pushing its climate-change initiatives on Capitol Hill, other than to wait for the evolving science and climbing temperatures to overwhelm the critics. Instead the Administration is concentrating on energy efficiency, which President Clinton calls a "win-win" approach, arguing that it is a win for the environment as well as the economy. But it also has political drawbacks--offending such traditional Democratic constituencies as the miners who could lose their jobs if the demand for coal drops, and rallying the opposition of powerful industries like...
...Tennessee just adopted one of the strictest, requiring many cities to impose growth boundaries around their perimeters. In Maryland, counties get state money for roads and schools only if they agree to confine growth to areas that the state has designated as suitable. But managed growth is not a win-win proposition. When laws make it harder to build in the countryside, new development is pressed into more expensive land closer to town. That can mean higher home prices, so the single mother who manages a doctor's office or the couple who make $38,000 a year...
...This win-win deal has something for Bill Gates, too. In Washington's federal courthouse, lawyers for Microsoft have jumped at the chance to prove that it's a volatile world after all. How can you have antitrust regulation when that kind of conniving is going on? "This proposed deal pulls the rug out from under the government," said top Redmond attorney William Neukom...
...Iraq believes it's in a win-win situation," adds TIME Middle East bureau chief Scott MacLeod. "Their objective is to get sanctions lifted, and they believe that if there's a diplomatic solution or if they're attacked, they gain either way." So the future of the conflict may now depend less on whether or not Iraq is bombed than on what happens after it's bombed...
...Netanyahu's tarrying reflects a philosophical reluctance to embrace the land-for-peace process started by Yitzhak Rabin. "Rabin saw peace as a win-win proposition for both sides," says Beyer. "But Netanyahu approaches the peace process on the basis that Israel loses when the Palestinians gain." In other words, for Bibi, peace is the continuation of war by other means. Which means we may hear some pretty creative excuses before he orders home any Israeli troops...