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...Robert Beck, chairman of both the Prudential Insurance Co. of America and the Business Roundtable, was polite but very plainspoken. Businessmen were frightened by the deficits. They had all concluded there was no chance the U.S. was going to grow its way out of those huge shortfalls. Their priorities for this year, from one through ten, were all the same: do something about the deficits...
...Beck looked to his left down the polished table at an attentive Reagan and made the most impassioned plea he has ever made in any of his White House trips. "You are such a great communicator, Mr. President," he said. "If you put together a package that is fair to everybody, the American people will buy it. Your leadership is demanded." Reagan nodded silently, neither yes nor no. His audience filed...
Rounding out the squad are freshmen Callie Huber and Carilyn Beck, sophomore Laureen Mulkern, and junior Jane McHugh...
...Harvard is based on academics You can't tell someone here not to work at it" says Scott beck. Harvard's 126-1b wrestler and a close friend of Clark's "He's really into his academics, but even so he's got an incredible amount of ability...
...right room?" Beck asked his silent 200 students when no one would define feudalism. Quickly he followed with another query, "What is unemployment?" One timid student replied, "Not having a job," and was backed up by others in the room. "Oh great, we've got a group of backup singers over here," Beck quipped...