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...Ordering a 10% to 12% across-the-board cut in spending by all nonmilitary Government departments, exempting only "entitlement" programs for which benefits are fixed by law. The reductions might total $12 billion for the Department of Health and Human Services alone. Just which programs would be cut or abolished to squeeze under these ceilings is most unclear...
...rights, should take second place to insuring that the economy is performing well. Says he: "A stagnant economy is, by definition, illiberal." Righting the economy, Tsongas argues, requires new incentives for savings and investment. He strongly opposes, however, Reagan's supply-side theology on the ground that across-the-board tax cuts are inflationary because they will stimulate consumption rather than productivity...
...quickly became obvious, however, that the President's targets were not limited to those specific troublemakers. The net had simply been spread too wide for Sadat to argue that the campaign was anything but an across-the-board attack on the opposition. Also rounded up by police were a number of political figures and other notables-including Journalist Mohammed Heikal and the elderly head of the now-defunct New Wafd Party, Fuad Seraged-Din-who obviously had no connection with the incident in June. At the end of his address, Sadat ordered the suspension of seven opposition publications...
...interests of these middle-class workers mesh nicely with the principles and promises of Reagan's supply-side philosophy. Not only would his across-the-board reductions in personal income taxes be popular among workers earning $20,000 annually, but the projected increase in industrial output resulting from savings increases, corporate tax breaks, and defense expenditures seem to promise higher employment in the capital-intensive, high-wage industrial sector...
WAGES. Poll asked for a $10,000 across-the-board annual increase for all controllers. Their pay now ranges from $20,462? the starting salary at some 100 unhurried airports serving small cities?to $49,229. The wages increase with the difficulty of the job (starting pay at one of the busy "birdcages" near New York, Chicago and Los Angeles is $37,000). On top of that, Poli wanted a twice-a-year, cost-of-living increase that would be 1½ times the rate of inflation. The FAA offered a $4,000 wage hike, which would have included...