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Targeting the deficit, the President starts to define shared sacrifice

THROUGH THE CAMERA LENS, BILL CLINTON LOOKED relieved to be wrestling with a problem as relatively manageable as, say, the economy. Having strayed into nasty thickets like gays in the military and the nanny gap, he needed to steer his message back to deficit cutting. To do so, Clinton used his campaign- tested technique of taking questions from a TV audience, which allowed him to try to prepare Americans for the "shared sacrifice" of the economic plan he will unveil this week.

But first Clinton made some sacrifices close to home. On Tuesday he proposed to reduce the White House staff...

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