Word: ares
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Such high jinks are symptomatic of much broader problems that have both caused and accelerated the emasculation of Government. Washington has been at a political impasse since Reagan's first term, when Congress -- Republicans as well as Democrats -- refused to let him gut popular domestic programs to pay for his...
Long-standing neglect at the Energy Department led to the dangerous deterioration of Government-run nuclear-weapons plants, and the department is currently dragging its heels on an estimated $150 billion effort to get the program back into shape. At the Department of Housing and Urban Development, new Secretary Jack...
Many in the Administration believe they are in office to shrink Government. "You liberal writers are just like the Democrats in Congress," White House Press Secretary Marlin Fitzwater recently lectured a reporter. "You think Government isn't doing anything unless it's taxing and spending and creating new bureaucracies." Yet...
Various support programs for the middle and upper classes are also humming along nicely. Large-scale farmers and well-to-do retirees still enjoy federal largesse, as do oil companies and people earning more than $200,000 (whose income is taxed at a 28% marginal rate, while a working couple...
But a TIME poll last week indicated increasing, if still rather vague, doubts about the future. Moreover, signs of strain are beginning to show at the state and local levels. State officials generally find their constituents as opposed to new local taxes as they are to the federal kind, except...