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...federal spending in fiscal 1983 at $784 billion; revenues at $668.2 billion, a figure to be reached by raising taxes $21.2 billion (never mind which taxes, that is to be decided later); and a deficit of $115.8 billion. The key move was a decision by the Republican majority to abandon an earlier proposal that called for unspecified "saving" of $40 billion in Social Security over the next three years. Instead, the Republicans substituted a vague directive to Congress to do whatever may be necessary to prevent the Social Security system from running out of money and keep pension checks going...
...water main used for onboard fire fighting. Said Salt: "We couldn't get below decks near the seat of the damage. We knew there were men down there, but we didn't know how many." After hours of unsuccessful fire fighting, Salt made the agonizing decision to abandon ship. Later he returned to his command by helicopter to view the damage. The Sheffield had refused to sink, but it remained an inferno. Recalled Salt: "The whole of the working area of the ship was a roaring mass of flames. We could see right down into the engine room...
Dissident Tosco shareholders, however, have been threatening to force the company to abandon Colony because of unbearable costs. Led by Kenneth M. Good, 37, a Colorado land developer and owner of 8.8% of Tosco's outstanding shares, those stockholders last week were making plans to put their own directors on Tosco's board at the Tosco annual meeting, to be held this week; later they hope to remove Winston from office. Says Good: "Tosco is a company with tremendous assets that are being mismanaged...
...personal strain eventually forced Burke abandon her congressional post. When her daughter entered first grade and could no longer make the trip to and from the capital. Burke returned to California and state politics Back home, she encountered a general surge of conservatism, per sonified by Howard M. Jarvis and his successful campaign for the tax-slashing Proposition 13. The controversial Bakke affirmative action debate stirred widespread racism, as did political confrontations over busing and integration in L.A. Burke opposed George "Duke" Deukmejian in the 1978 attorney general's race and lost in a campaign her supporters charged had been...
Burke may be working behind the scenes for the moment, but it seems certain that she will not abandon politics entirely. "Every one of us has a responsibility to try to make a dynamic change in a way that we can," she says. "Every person does it in a different way. I think even the same person sometimes does it in different ways at different times.... I do feel that I have a responsibility...