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...Reagan and the passage of the tax bill played an important role." Some moneymen cited Reagan's apparent move away from the influence of supply-side economists, who favor tax cuts and play down the impact of budget deficits. Said Donald Trott, a market strategist for the A.G. Becker investment firm: "Increasingly, people in the financial community feel that supply-side economics is voodoo economics. The determination with which the President pursued passage of his tax legislation has sent the message that he is turning to a more conventional policy...
...News: "We see CNN as a very good service . . . but not of network quality." Adds Richard Wald, senior vice president for news at ABC: "CNN does a nice, straightforward, basic rendition of the news very competently." Outside analysts are more generous. Anthony Hoffmann, a cable analyst for Warburg Paribas Becker Securities, observes, "People talking to a CNN reporter do not seem to think they are talking to the whole world and so they say things they will not say to the networks. You hear more of the words of the people and less prepackaged editorializing. I think the American public...
...BLUE-EYED SHAN by Stephen Becker...
Thus begins an absolutely ripping adventure. Author Stephen Becker, 55, keeps the action fast and the background crammed with details. He meticulously evokes the rhythms of village life, the rituals of a people cut off from the rest of the world. The convergence of Greenwood and General Yang poses a threat to that secure isolation. Eventually, Pawlu is surrounded by a group of mutinous Chinese soldiers and a marauding band of headhunters. Greenwood must choose between defending the village or earning lasting fame as the rescuer of the Peking Man. The Blue-Eyed Shan completes a trilogy of novels...
...street wisdom, and they are eventually undone by the one informer they cannot silence: immaturity. Richard leaves the gang for his parents' Connecticut suburb, "until a semester starts somewhere." The violent adventures of the others have the aura of a dorm game of Dungeons and Dragons, and Becker's final question smacks of Psych. 101: "Did people have to get blown away just so I wouldn't have to. . . wear neckties...