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...tree. "I was afraid they would get hurt, and the city would get sued, or I would," he said. So he cut the tree down. An official of the parks department in Queens happened to spot the fallen tree and asked whether LoGiudice had a permit to ax it. LoGiudice could not tell a lie. No permit. He was sent a bill. Value of tree destroyed: $1,287. Replacement cost of three-inch flowering cherry tree: $200. Inspection fee: $25. Discount: $200 (unexplained). Net owed...
...with almost the entire federal bureaucracy. The goal is to pare spending requests and put together a budget that will not exceed the $30 billion deficit that Carter has pledged. Congress is in a cutting mood, but may change its mind when specific sacrosanct programs come up for the ax...
...just a necessary evil but a positive good, that spending has simply got out of hand in many instances. Says a White House aide: "We just have to look at some of these things and ask ourselves: 'What are we buying? What's the real effect?' " The ax is poised over three departments in particular: Health, Education and Welfare, HUD and Labor. They will spend $214.3 billion in fiscal 1979, or about 44% of the current $491.6 billion federal budget. Their spending, moreover, has increased in the past few years. Outlays for what is defined as "education, training, employment...
...Western coverage of developing nations is shot through with colonial stereotypes; just as Europe's cartel once painted the U.S. as a land of scalpings, lynchings and ax murders, the Western press allegedly sees the Third World as a slough of coups, corruption and natural catastrophes...
...since Lizzie Borden gave her mother 40 whacks has a daughter wreaked such vengeance on her mother. But instead of using an ax as a weapon, Christina Crawford has wielded a pen?in a book, Mommie Dearest, that is the publishing gossip sensation of the fall season...