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...commissars off the backs of productive enterprise, the world appears to be fulfilling the President's boldest dreams. At home, most Americans have enjoyed the longest peacetime economic expansion in modern history. The "misery index" -- that combination of inflation and unemployment rates that the Democrats invoked to bedevil Gerald Ford in 1976 -- now stands at less than 10, roughly half what it was when Jimmy Carter left office. Reagan has also fulfilled his antigovernment pledge to drastically slash income-tax rates...
...controversy erupts over dangerous working conditions in the Capitol's mail-folding room, where newsletters are processed. Congress does not fall under the occupational safety and health (OSHA) regulations that bedevil other employers...
...expires next April. He is more adamant about persistent rumors that Republicans want him to run for Governor or Senator. "I don't give them a chance to breathe between sentences" before saying no, he growls. Meanwhile, he takes a kind of bemused pleasure in the minor crises that bedevil any small-town mayor. "If someone had told me two years ago that I'd be spending time in someone else's garage, deciding if it could be moved three inches to the north," he says ruefully, "I would have said he'd lost...
...said he would need, and for $750,000 less than his $2.9 million budget. Though the publicity-conscious Trump had much at stake in finishing the rink quickly, his rescue effort nonetheless is a revealing example of how a private developer, unfettered by the myriad regulations that bedevil local government, can execute projects with dispatch. "Donald Trump did a terrific job," said Koch last week. "We have many legal constraints on us not applicable to the private sector that often make it difficult to do things as efficiently as we would like...
Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome--AIDS--which until recently had been receiving the most attention in the U.S., has jumped the Atlantic and the Pacific, and brought with it the same fear and anxiety that continue to bedevil Americans. Indeed, the reactions frequently border on hysteria, adding ostracism and discrimination to the suffering of the world's AIDS victims. Headlines in Europe have proclaimed the disease's spread with dire warnings of a new plague. This has led Professor Carlo de Bac, secretary of the Italian League to Combat Virus Diseases, to complain that journalists are creating "unjustified alarm and panic worthy...