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...upshot is that Congress today is much more of a brake on an Administration's initiatives ? and perhaps on the nation's progress ? than it is an inspiring source of fresh ideas and solutions to problems. Whether that reactive tendency, to block what a President proposes, is perceived as good or bad depends, of course, on the observer's political point of view. In any case, Congress this year will not produce many dramatic new legislative achievements. Reagan, in fact, has asked it to undo much of what its predecessors have done...
...fight when the issue comes up in Parliament this month. So far, the vacuum has been filled only by former Premier Raymond Barre, whose ponderous oratory and demeanor symbolized economic discipline during the Giscard years. "The nationalizations are a source of uncertainty for our enterprises and a brake on investment and exports," he scolded. "This experience is going to show that nationalized businesses are costlier than private ones...
...change was backed by Archbishop Runcie, but its main proponent was Bishop John Taylor of Winchester. Said he: "The rush is on, and if the brake hasn't held, we have to do something else. We are dealing with a social epidemic." British reaction was generally favorable, but the decision does add to the long list of problems complicating reunion with the Roman Catholic Church...
...prices to jump even more after decontrol. Price increases, though, were held back a little by the high oil stocks around the world. Walter Heller, former economic adviser to President Kennedy, also pointed out that lower than expected increases in housing and food prices had acted as a brake on inflation, and he foresees less steeply rising prices for a few months...
...drivers claim other advantages. Insists Jane Flint, a Washington advertising researcher who actually grew up in Detroit without ever learning to back or brake: "I feel I have more freedom than most of my friends, forever hopping into the car with a fabric swatch in their hands, driving the kids to the dentist when they could just as well have walked, driving back to the market to buy some forgotten item, picking up the kids from the dentist, back downtown again-this goes on all day long." Fortunately, says Flint, her children "don't have arcane tastes...