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When Walker opened his consulting and lobbying firm in 1973, clients flocked to his plush offices near the White House. He does not act as sole lobbyist for any of them; instead, he concentrates on tax matters. Walker's prime concern now is a reduction in the capital gains tax to encourage new investment. Says he: "Inflation is simply a situation where too much money is chasing too few goods. So you produce more. How? More capital formation, more plant and equipment." He began preparing for the fight in 1975, when he became head of the Washington-based American...
Japan was not a good place for Americans to be last week, and Europe was not much better. The bruised and battered buck was staggering through another glassy-eyed performance of its Incredible Shrinking Act; and when the curtain dropped at week's end, the star performer looked more frazzled and anemic than ever...
Cranmer called for a better assessment of the risks and suggested that more research be done. Otherwise, he said, because of "current toxicological ignorance, we might act needlessly in an effort to eliminate a given carcinogen which, if the methods of quantifying risk existed, could prove less significant than a lifetime exposure from a package of cigarettes...
Once the class act of baseball, the New York Yankees have fallen on ugly times. For nearly two years, Owner George Steinbrenner, Manager Billy Martin and Outfielder Reggie Jackson have presided over one of the tackier chapters in the sport's history. Together the Cuisinart blades of their egos have produced an almost daily puree of spite, envy and innuendo. In the process, they have transformed baseball's proudest franchise into a synonym for small-minded rancor. Last week one of them, Billy Martin, exited, temporarily, from the one job he always wanted in baseball. Question: Did he fall...
Whatever his accomplishments as a gifted literary editor, Maxwell Perkins made life hard for would-be biographers. He was a taciturn and thoroughly decent man who absolutely refused to act out the sort of emotional highs and lows that drive a narrative along. By choice, he did exactly the same thing every working day for 32 years: he sat in the New York City offices of Charles Scribner's Sons and nurtured the talents of others. Because three of those were F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway and Thomas Wolfe, all of whom put their private lives in open books...