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...barrier to a brisker turnaround remains the federal budget deficit, which the board expects will reach an unprecedented $205 billion in the current fiscal year. The members were chagrined, and even a little shaken, by the failure of Congress and the White House to agree on a new budget last month and offered some deficit-cutting proposals of their...
...would increase the debt to more than $1.6 trillion during his term. The future interest payments on this additional debt alone could run higher than $60 billion a year. In contrast to the frenetic maneuvering a year ago to keep his 1983 projected deficit from breaking the $100 billion barrier (the final figure is likely to be $210 billion by the time fiscal 1983 ends in September), the President adopted a sanguine attitude about this year's shortfall. In January, he proposed a stand-by tax that would take effect in 1985 on the contingency that deficits remained high...
...rejects the materialist fallacy--still dominant in psychobiology--which downplays the power of ideas and emotions. Sperry believes that materialism is the only obstacle which prevents a fusion of science and religion, and that his solution to the mind-brain problem has broken down the barrier between the two. And if anyone could link science and ethics, Sperry, an excellent researcher who cares deeply about ethical questions, would be the man. Sperry is also the only Nobel prize-winning scientist to have majored in English at college...
...brave new "pharmacological society" prohibition has proved to be more effective as a pricing policy than as an actual barrier to the availability of illegal drugs. And the absence of reliable information, even about such fundamental questions as the relative toxicity of the various drugs which are available, has resulted in widespread confusion and suffering. In order to clarify some of the issues raised by the use of marijuana and other forms of cannabis, the Unidentified Flying Idea (UFI) sponsored a symposium on "Marijuana and Health" last month at the Science Center...
...plays brazened through the cliche barrier to make provocative comments on the battle between artistic integrity and professional survival. In Kent Broadhurst's lovely The Habitual Acceptance of the Near Enough, a Manhattan gallery owner (Frederic Major) instructs a brilliant, unknown painter (John C. Vennema) in the art of compromise; fortunately the lesson does not take. In Jeffrey Sweet's The Value of Names, Benny (Larry Block), a blacklisted actor who has revived his career on a TV sitcom, crosses rusty swords with Leo (Frederic Major again), the theater director who had testified against him before the House...