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...were apparent in their treatment of the Republicans' highly publicized Kemp-Roth amendment, which called for slashing income tax rates by 33% over the next three years. On a virtual party-line vote, the Senate two weeks ago killed Kemp-Roth, 60 to 36. But, with barely a blush, the Democrats last week rammed through an amendment introduced by Georgia Conservative Sam Nunn that could cut taxes $164.5 billion by 1983. The measure differed from Kemp-Roth by a provision that it go into effect only if specified decreases in federal spending and the budget deficit were achieved. Republican...
...Soviet Union is already Afghanistan's largest customer and holds 62% of its $1.75 billion foreign debt. Russian aid deals come readymade on terms that would make even a Yankee trader blush. Repayment is usually in commodities, and price and quantity are renegotiated annually. Orange growers on a Soviet-aided project are whipsawed when the fruit reaches the border, where Soviet inspectors often rate it substandard and lower the price. Afghan natural gas is piped over the border. The Russians have craftily installed the meters on their side and pay for the gas at about one-third the world price...
...this is no novel. The village is real, a town called Montaillou, clinging to a mountainside in the Pyrenees in what is now southern France. The time is the beginning of the 14th century. The priest is Pierre Clergue, a clergyman who might have made Boccaccio blush. In French Historian Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie's brillant reconstruction, the reader learns how the villagers thought, ate, hated and loved-and even what they said to one another in public and in private. Such rare detail has made this lively volume a surprise bestseller in Europe...
...maturing process, a time when students learn to make choices for themselves. "They want to maximize that ability" to make choices, he concedes; even though, in his mind, "the restraints imposed by the Core are quite minimal," he says he understands why the program would appear at first blush to be a considerable restriction on students' range of decision-making. In fact, he adds that if he were an undergraduate today, and had not bothered to study the Core program in depth, he might well find the proposal "a hassle...
...belief that when it appears better it is really worse." It sounds nice, but it's no way to live, or to make us believe in life. Take that from someone who has been known to quote such statements as insightful commentaries upon existence--and who at first blush was much more impressed than he is now, upon reflection, by Graham Greene's indefatigable fatigue with life...