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...Georgia's government increased spending by 50%, the number of state employees by 25% and bonded indebtedness by more than 20% (though Carter's aides argue that these figures used alone are misleading). Ford also managed to turn around a reporter's question about how he could so harshly assail the Democratic Congress and yet work with it if elected. "I think the American people want a Republican President to check on any excesses that come out of the next Congress," Ford declared...
...billion. Nor was Ford accurate in claiming that current Georgia Governor George Busbee had found the state's Medicaid program "a shambles" on following Carter into office. The term does not appear in the Senate Finance subcommittee testimony Ford had cited. What Busbee had done, in fact, was to assail the Federal Government's program and regulations on Medicaid as "the most complex, confused, duplicative and wasteful system ever conceived...
Nitpicking Rules? One question is why Andersen, of all firms, should assail the SEC's effort to back up the F.A.S.B. Andersen has long argued for more uniformity in accounting procedures, and its executives played a key role in setting up the F.A.S.B. But the company also has long been an aggressive maverick. Some competitors grumble privately that it is merely seeking publicity, and Price Waterhouse's brief publicly refers to "Andersen's past attacks on the accounting profession." Andersen Chairman Harvey E. Kapnick Jr. protests that his company is merely trying to preserve the profession...
Undoubtedly, an army of concerned mothers, irate women's liberationists, shocked clergymen, and uncloseted homosexuals will flock to assail the moral and ethical character of TIME for having the audacity to publish this cover...
...with about 100 Texas Republicans amid the Rose Garden's blooming magnolias and promised that "the U.S. [military] is going to be No. 1, as it is." Later he defended his foreign policy before a group of conservative Senators at the White House. But Ford probably will not assail Reagan stridently. Explains an aide to the President: "He's got to pave the way for Reagan and his supporters to jump aboard his campaign at some point"-at the convention or at least before the November election...