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...options are presented starkly. One sentence sets forth the department's request; another contains the recommendation from the Office of Management and Budget. After hearing the arguments, the man who sits where the buck stops jots his "RR" in a small box next to one of the alternatives, or scribbles in a compromise. The disputes between Cabinet agencies and David Stockman's OMB have reached the Oval Office, where Ronald Reagan must play either Santa or Scrooge. Even as the final legislation implementing his 1982 budget was being rushed through an adjournment-happy Congress last week, the President...
...bill applies only to Cambridge, which is fitting. Though voters across the state approved the bill by better than a two-to-one margin, Cambridge citizens had the foresight to buck the trend and defeat the legislation by about the same margin. All the special legislation now before the state would do is give Cambridge voters what they have already asked rora fiscally sound, well-managed and efficient city, with well-plowed streets...
...piranhas were raised on the Stockman spread, but the farm comes into view: "The inflation premium melts away like the morning mist"; "all conventional estimates just wind up as mud"; "if there's a consensus, he [Reagan] is not going to buck...
...then, must be to take away the source of danger, not to figure out ways to buck the odds against oblivion for a few more years. Thankfully, there seems to be a growing recognition of this most important of facts. In Western Europe--and even in Rumania--people seem to be saying that no, they'd rather not have a demonstration explosion or any other sort in their country. The City Council of Cambridge acted wisely and with courage earlier this fall when it called for bilateral disarmament. And tomorrow, Harvard professors and students will join the Union of Concerned...
...came together. "In 1965 I realized that I didn't want [the Ph.D.] so badly, so I stopped working for it," Lehrer says. That was also the year he cut his last album--music that accompanied a short-lived television program called "That Was; the Week That Was," starring Buck Henry. With that, he; retired from show business to teach "mathematical models in social science" at MIT until...