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...selling it to U.S. flour mills. Even with about $19- per-ton freight charges and $8-a-ton duty, the Argentine product would have been cheaper than U.S. wheat, which was selling for $150 a ton. After an outburst of protest in the farm belt, Cargill canceled the deal...
Washington Gossip Columnist Betty Beale, who holds the equivalent of a black belt in the sport, spotted her opportunity. Noting that Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor was about to wind up a chat with Attorney General William French Smith at the Swedish Ambassador's Christmas party, Beale swooped past the hors d'oeuvre table, greeted O'Connor and guided her skillfully to a brocade couch. She had reached safe territory. Even though the pair was surrounded by some 200 other guests, no one would have dreamed of interrupting a sit-down...
Brushing off suggestions from top aides that he should begin by proposing some symbolic cuts, Weinberger went to a White House meeting on Monday and sat quietly through a belt-tightening pitch by the President. He assured Reagan that his department would take another look at its budget figures and "come in with suggested cuts." But once Reagan was out of the room, Weinberger tangled with David Stockman, director of the Office of Management and Budget, in what one participant called a heated exchange...
California is a prime example of an impressive upturn in state fortunes. While the national deficit, already monstrous, continues to grow at an alarming pace, the vast majority of states are enjoying budget surpluses, the reward for years of belt tightening and budget slashing. The National Conference of State Legislatures estimates that the collective budget surpluses for 1984 total $5.3 billion, more than double the $2.1 billion figure of a year before...
...modern diplomacy in a naive and simplistic manner. The problems of the world aren't going to be solved by the cooperation of U.S. U.S.S.R. space teams, nor by the discovery of new life in the Universe. Men will be men, no matter how many monoliths litter the asteroid belt...