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...supposed to be the tight-fisted party that wants to balance the budget. So we put a balanced-budget provision in the platform, but then we proceed to spend $75 billion to $100 billion in tax breaks. The same people who are talking about a flat tax to broaden the tax base and get rid of loopholes are loading up the platform with provisions that increase the [personal income tax] exemption from $1,000 to $2,000. That is big money-$15 billion just for that one little item...
...stirring speeches, was tailor-made for television. "The Democrats ended up with a sense of movement and energy," says a Reagan aide. "The G.O.P. is moving too, but almost entirely on the shoulders of one man, Ronald Reagan. We needed to find some way to use Dallas to broaden out." The President's strategists hit on a double-barreled solution: the party's rising stars and prominent women will be featured speakers in prime time...
Sears is still working to broaden its business horizon. The company has set up the Sears Communications Network, which is going to sell computer-data transmission and communications services. The company is already offering long-distance telephone services through MCI Communications, one of the new competitors of A T & T. Customers may charge calls to their monthly Sears bill. In California the company is experimenting with a telephone bill-paying service linked to its credit card. In February, Sears launched a joint venture with IBM and CBS to develop a home-information service called Trintex, which will probably involve bill...
That campaign was beef-less not so much in its ideas, but in its inability to broaden its appeal to include the constituencies necessary for a Democratic victory in the fall-labor and minorities. The fact of the matter is that there has been a Republican electoral majority out there for nearly two decades now--the sun-beliers, the Bible-beliers, the free-marketers, the right-to-lifers--grouped under the aegis of less government. Thus the Republicans, as Rothenberg points out, have a luxury the Democrats don't--a simplistic unifying theme. The way to fight this...
...fencing is still something to restrain sheep, and fencers are still at the stage of scrambling for subsistence money, recognition and enough new talent to broaden the sport's base. In non-Olympic years, the U.S. fencers who go to meets are not always the country's best; sometimes they are simply the best of those who can afford the trip. Before Angelakis made the 1980 team, her travels were financed for a year with $3,000 raised by the Greek Orthodox Church of Peabody. The odds are that the U.S. is not yet able to produce...