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- GRAPEVINE, Page 17PANDER METER
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- By JANICE CASTRO
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- When the going gets tough, the incumbent gets generous.
- Add up the altruism President Bush has demonstrated this month
- as he tries to close the gap with Clinton:
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- Miffed China and Israel but mollified angry aerospace
- workers by okaying the sale of $6 billion worth of F-16s to
- Taiwan and $9 billion worth of F-15s to Saudi Arabia
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- Boosted farm-state fortunes $1 billion with the new wheat
- Export Enhancement Program
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- Promised to spend $500 million to rebuild marginally
- important Homestead Air Force Base
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- Lowered premiums for the 15-year FHA-insured home
- mortgages favored by upper-income buyers
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- Promised 100% federal reimbursement of rebuilding costs
- for hurricane victims in Florida, Louisiana and Hawaii -- up
- from the 75% usually given to victims of natural disasters,
- such as the 1989 San Francisco earthquake
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