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...Louisiana Senator Russell Long, Illinois Congressman Danny Rostenkowski and Oklahoma Congressman James Jones. After the turkey and pumpkin pie, Reagan should take his goblet of Cabernet Sauvignon and ask everyone there to pledge himself to a great legislative crusade to reform the tax system, raise revenue, cut spending and banish those hideous deficits. For that kind of commitment, the American people would surely give thanks...
Still, even two border incursions do not make for all-out war. A little perspective is in order. One gets the impression from the swirl of controversy, from the charges and countercharges in the air, that one side is about to banish the Constitution, the other God. Hardly. The battles of the past few weeks amount not to war but to border rectification...
...wind, though, is now going out of the windfalls. This week the Financial Accounting Standards Board, a private group that sets rules for corporate bookkeeping, will propose guidelines that would virtually banish junior shares. The F.A.S.B. and the Securities and Exchange Commission believe that junior shares should be considered a form of pay. This would force companies to show on their books the expense of converting employees' low-priced junior stock into more valuable common shares. In some cases, this could reduce profits by as much as 25% after a few years. Said F.A.S.B. Staffer Steven Johnson: "Currently...
...fact, the first thing a viewer of the new film has to do is take a machete to his comfortable expectations about the Ape Man. Banish beefy Johnny Weissmuller, his predecessors and his heirs from your mind; rethink Jane; forget Boy; above all, abandon hope that Cheeta the chimp will skitter on to provide not only the movie's best acting but its only conscious comic relief as well. All of that was admittedly fun, as if the cast of a suburban sitcom had been dropped down in the African hinterlands, told to undress and act natural. But Burroughs...
...brief moment last week it seemed that the members of the new Commission on Civil Rights might banish whatever bitterness they harbored from last year's skirmishes and stand together. The commissioners answered Democrat Walter Mondale and others who criticized them as puppets of the Reagan Administration with a blunt statement: "The commission belongs to no one . . . and will serve no political ideology or special interest. That is the meaning of our independence. It is uncompromisable...