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Now there's great eagerness in the Sinclair laboratory to complete and publish related research, notably by replicating the yeast work in higher organisms.
The Sunbeam board's eagerness to get rid of Chainsaw Al is a marked contrast to the story I've been working; namely, the United Auto Workers strikes against General Motors in Flint, Mich.
Those who argue that Clinton will compromise--i.e., sign a tax cut greater than the $300 billion ceiling he now demands--point to several signs, such as (a) Al Gore's release of a modest tax cut proposal this week, (b) Clinton's desire to make a deal with the GOP on entitlement reform, and (c) the eagerness of some Senate Democrats to be seen as tax-cutters before election time (Bob Novak, of CNN's Capitol Gang ; Susan Page and Tucker Carlson, of CNN's Late Edition ; and Paul Gigot, of PBS's NewsHour With Jim Lehrer ).
It "positively exudes a puppy-like friendliness and eagerness to ingratiate" (Donald Lyons, the Wall Street Journal ).(Learn more about the protests against the play; read Jacob Weisberg's review in Slate .)
But if the citizens who open and empty the ballot box can suppress their eagerness to recycle these pieces of paper long enough to count them first, so much the better.