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USAT has a brief front-page blurb and the WP has a more detailed piece based on the report in this week's Time that the FBI and State Department are investigating the theft, during the height of the Iraq crisis, by a man in a brown tweed jacket, of top secret documents from a secure State Dept. office just down the hall from Albright's.
Early in the film, with the Flowers crisis in full bloom, Sam Donaldson interviews Stephanopoulos, who blames it all on the "Republican attack machine."
Not every pundit is worrying about the crisis.
But that growth did not produce an economic crisis, with incomes declining and government control needed to maintain order.
In 1995, Congress dropped all federal restrictions on highway speed limits (first imposed during the 1970s energy crisis), letting states set the maximum wherever they pleased.