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...Implementation that's going to be the bugaboo," he adds. "I think there needs to be a lot more thinking to make these things work...
Equally important, in the furious view of the losing Democrats, Reagan had taken a serious stride toward that old congressional bugaboo, the "Imperial Presidency." Reagan raised that fear by getting the House to substitute budget proposals drafted by Office of Management and Budget Director David Stockman for those worked out by its own committees. Said House Speaker Tip O'Neill after the vote: "I've never seen anything like this. Does this mean that any time the President is interested in a piece of legislation, he merely sends it over?" Last week at least, the answer seemed...
...Outlook: A deep, strong club, but the bugaboo may be youth. "That's the thing we lack, experience," Nahigian says. "We've started to cut down on our mental errors, and, right now, I feel we're a solid ball club. We'll find out this weekend just how good...
...times greater (against total toy sales of about $5.5 billion). The great beep forward came when Milton Bradley noticed that adults were buying its innovative Simon -for themselves, and not just in the weeks before Christmas. The highly seasonal nature of toy buying has always been an industry bugaboo; after Christmas, retailers can get stuck with toys that won't sell...
Unemployment is a special bugaboo for the Israeli government. An Israeli out of work might leave the country-depriving it of a soldier-or, perhaps worse, might vote against the party in power. As Finance Minister Yehoshua Rabinowitz says, "While other countries fight inflation with planned unemployment, we have steered clear of that course because we know that large-scale unemployment here would be social dynamite...