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...computer price wars and brisk sales are one bright spot in an otherwise bleak economy. Retail sales have not picked up substantially after the July tax cut. With so much going wrong in business, Americans apparently like to go home after a hard day's work and play a rip-roaring game of Pac-Man or chart their biorhythms on a home computer...
...example, they have set up an El Al airline office. Every day, between 50 and 150 Lebanese buy tickets from Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion Airport to distant parts of the globe. With the cooperation of the Israeli authorities, several travel agencies in Sidon are also doing a brisk business operating one-week tours of Israel at $200 a head. A senior Lebanese official last week charged that the Israelis had looted Beirut International Airport, emptied its duty-free shops and even confiscated the big reservations computer of Lebanon's Middle East Airlines. Warns a Christian shopkeeper...
...similar dry, wry spirit, something of a trademark with Eric Rohmer (Claire's Knee, The Aviator's Wife), moves through Le Beau Manage. A brisk young woman named Sabine (Beatrice Romand) quite sensibly grows tired of transitory affairs (and the preoccupations married men bring to them) and calmly informs friends and family that she is about to marry, though she does not yet know whom. She is confident, however, based on past experience, that she can ensnare any man she wants. Her choice is a good-looking lawyer (Andre Dussollier), the right number of years older, the right...
...gestures are ephemeral. When the hard, working details are examined, some voters who now like the grand gesture may reflect on what that will really cost. By the most optimistic predictions, assuming a brisk and lasting economic recovery, the federal deficit will still be at least $100 billion by 1986, when the amendment might become operative. Who would suffer if that $100 billion were suddenly eliminated from Government spending or added to taxation? Revenue sharing for the states would be the first to go. Medicare and Social Security would be vulnerable. So would civilian pensions. Neither defense nor social programs...
...appearing at the State Department, the Treasury and the President's Council of Economic Advisers. Meanwhile, policy-making has become a desperate waiting game, with virtually all options for actions ruled out by the principles of Reaganomics, leaving the top advisers little choice but to hope that a brisk recovery will somehow occur. Says Jerry Jordan, a member of the Council of Economic Advisers, who resigned early this month, citing family reasons: "You have got to remember that the President himself has set economic policy, and he is so incredibly consistent that it really does not matter...