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...after negotiations between the White House and Congress on the budget for fiscal 1983 had broken down amid partisan squabbling, a new compromise proposal was hastily approved by Ronald Reagan and the Republican-controlled Senate Budget Committee. Yet no sooner had the White House and G.O.P. leaders reached that accord than congressional Democrats launched a broadside against it. Charged Senator Ernest Rollings of South Carolina, the ranking Democrat on the Budget Committee: "It's Stockman and his gimmickry. These are squishy figures...
...worshipped the army transport planes that bought unimaginable riches of K-rations and surplus hardware, the Bakkers grasp best the material manifestations of the divine. Welfare checks number not among such miracles: "Why can't man throw money at his problems? Because God wants things to be in accord with His will... We're tired of all the hype. We want to go back to old foundations." When God speaks to Jim Bakker. He reads from George Gilder and tells Bakker to build a $100 million Heritage Total Living Center. Asked to reconcile his weaker commitment to the poor...
Lower Budget Deficits. Economists agree that Congress and the President must reach an accord to cut spending and raise taxes in 1983. Most analysts would like to see a deficit under $100 billion, instead of the $180 billion now projected. Says John Paulus of the Goldman, Sachs investment firm: "It's impossible to over estimate the aid and comfort that a budget compromise would give the financial markets." Even the hint of such a compromise last week sent , some short-term interest rates down slightly...
...court, the team ignored her directions. No matter what individually players think of a coach, her strategy or her personality, during gametime her word must be followed with the same respect shipmates accord their captain...
...extracted the largest single arms sale ever from the United States Senate, its ambassador to the U.N. declared on national television that Saudi Arabia had already done "enough" for the Camp David process. What was "enough?" Nothing, save the isolation of Sadat and the unequivocal rejection of the accord...