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Cartoonists will undoubtedly have fun with Wright's distinctively bushy eyebrows and sharp features, but not nearly as much as they had with Tip's nose and sheer bulk. The two leaders' personal styles are as different as their physical attributes. While the bluff O'Neill could growl out a rough response to Republican policy, Wright has a well-earned reputation as the House's foremost debater, and Reagan is already feeling the sting of his remarks. "Harry Truman said the buck stops here," he said in a speech last week, "but Ronald Reagan says put it on a credit...
...evidence presented here, there is no such thing as a typical Wright Morris story. Unlike contemporaries like John Cheever and Eudora Welty, Morris has not devoted the bulk of his attention to a particular social class or geographic area. His principal characters may be anything from janitors to college professors, and his settings range from Vienna to Brooklyn to Missouri to Northern California, with numerous points in between. The common thread in Morris' stories, both early and late, is an odd, intense vision of life after nearly all passion has been spent. Well into their marriages, husbands and wives coexist...
...what of the Senate? Senators play in the riskier game than representatives. Between the higher prestige of the office and the scarcity of opportunities to achieve it, Senate races attract stronger challengers. Senators also are more newsworthy. Unlike representatives, they do not themselves provide the bulk of the information that constituents receive. Moreover, Senators are expected to maintain a higher profile on the great issues of the day. For all these reasons Senators face tougher elections than modern representatives...
Does this mean we are about to witness a long string of Administration defeats in Congress? No. First, in terms of sheer bulk, there is not much that President Reagan wants from Congress except to protect the gains achieved largely in the first year, which is a much easier task to accomplish than policy initiation. He has the smallest domestic legislative agenda of any President in the post-war era, and whatever rhetoric he has committed to social issues like prayer in the schools and the prohibition of abortions, they have never been serious interests of the Administration. Second...
Despite the renewal of the federal Superfund program, the clean-up effort will be expensive. Some of the cost of cleanup will be borne by polluters, and the Superfund will help with the most urgent and expensive projects. The bulk of the cost, however, will fall on state taxpayers in the form of increased taxes and bond issues. That's why voting for the tax ceiling proposed in Question 3 would be serious mistake. According to a recent poll, almost two-thirds of Massachusetts voters were willing to pay an extra $100 in taxes to fund the clean-up effort...