Thomas Eagleton
OpinionSeptember 19, 1993
CAN UNSOUND BUSINESS BE SOUND POLITICSElizabeth Holtzman -- West of the Hudson River, hers is not a well known name. In New York, she has been a person of significant political stature for 20 years. Last week her political career came near its end. She finished a dismal second, just barely qualifying f...OpinionSeptember 12, 1993
CUTTING DEAD WOOD IN GOVERNMENT: IT TAKES VERY LONG TIME TO DIENo one hated government bureaucracy more than Ronald Reagan. He made a lifelong career as after-dinner speaker, governor and president railing at the stupidities and blunders of federal agencies. "Government isn't the solution, it's the problem," he often chanted.....OpinionSeptember 7, 1993
ANDY YOUNG TALKED AND HE GOT SACKED, NOW ...Back in 1979, Andrew Young was the American ambassador to the United Nations. Without telling his superiors, he had some off-the-cuff discussions in the corridor with PLO delegates in New York. Official American policy forbade any talks by U.S. officials with the P...OpinionAugust 29, 1993
CURE SOUGHT FOR AIRLINE INDUSTRYThere are some sick industries in the United States, but few sicker than the airlines. The deregulation of air travel during the Carter presidency was supposed to generate a cascade of profitable competition between carriers, with lots of new companies entering the...OpinionAugust 22, 1993
INSURANCE COMPANIES AREN'T FLOODING IDIOTS; IT'S UNCLE SAMRivers like the Missouri and Mississippi tend to flood sometimes massively. They've been doing it since the Big Bang. Although the Great Flood of `93 has been described as "historic," it is an even money bet that within the next 20 years some other huge flood will...OpinionAugust 16, 1993
WHEN WILL WE SEE A BALANCED BUDGETIt was in the early morning hours after the Senate had voted 51-50 to support the Clinton budget. The staff members of the Senate Budget Committee remained in the Capitol to clean up the details of the bill and to edit their bosses' floor speeches. As they sat aro...OpinionAugust 8, 1993
CLINTON DID THE BEST HE CIOULD: AMERICANS WERE READY FOR ANYTHING BETTERPresident Clinton has achieved his first major legislative victory of sorts. By the thinnest of margins, the Clinton budget as heavily revised by Congress is now law. If you had told Bill Clinton in January that the budget just passed was all that he could beg o...OpinionAugust 1, 1993
GINSBURG: THIRD COMING FELIX FRANKFURTERRuth Bader Ginsburg will soon be the 107th justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Where in the philosophical scheme of things will Justice Ginsburg fit? It is something of a guessing game but not totally so. Presidents attempt to select justices who squ...OpinionJuly 25, 1993
AMERICA HAS AN UNDERCLASS DISCONNECTED FROM REST OF SOCIETY"Race is at the core of problems which confront America's urban areas." Secretary of HUD Henry G. Cisneros "A generation ago, Daniel Patrick Moynihan warned that one in four black children was being born to an unwed mother. Today, about two in three blacks and one ...OpinionJuly 19, 1993
TUMULT, SHOUTING DIES, TEN WILL ARRIVE FEMAEver heard of the Federal Emergency Management Agency? Washington insiders, addicted to acronyms, call it FEMA now you've heard of it, I'm sure. For the moment and only for the moment FEMA is the most popular agency of the federal government. It's going to bring...Advertisement
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