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...economic system radically and (stage left) a Democratic House leadership hoping to preserve the social programs and progressive taxes that have evolved since the New Deal. Reagan's dazzling victories won him wide applause-both enthusiastic and grudging-for a masterly political performance. Now, players and audience alike await the second act, in which foreign policy and controversial domestic issues promise to dominate the stage...
...Indian Museum, which holds an annual and overcrowded handcraft sale, her son Scott wanted one item badly but had broken his leg in a skiing accident. Instead of using her clout to bypass a long line of buyers, his mother spent several hours sitting on a camp stool to await her turn...
Today, Quraishi moves among international bankers with ease. Almost every day financial pilgrims to SAMA check into Riyadh's sumptuous Inter-Continental Hotel near the bank's headquarters and await an audience with Quraishi. Even David Rockefeller, recently retired chairman of the Chase Manhattan Bank, was once spotted in the Inter-Continental lobby whiling away the time before his appointment...
...Prince. They were the first to be sent home under a new U.S. policy of deporting all Haitians who have arrived illegally since mid-May. (Last year more than 20,000 entered the U.S. legitimately.) Seventy-six more Haitians have been found similarly unacceptable and ordered to leave, but await judicial review of their cases, which will begin this week. If the Immigration and Naturalization Service has its way-as a Cabinet task force will shortly recommend-flights back to Haiti will become common, and the surge of illegal Haitian immigrants may be staunched...
...President's intelligence briefing is assembled in a black leather folder, hand-carried upstairs and placed on the desk in the Oval Office to await Reagan's arrival around 9 a.m. When his top aides and Secretary of State Alexander Haig assemble at 9:15, the President will have been through the folder and have his questions and impressions ready...