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...Take it easy, George. This is what President Reagan calls 'private sector initiative.' It's a laudable attempt by good natured businessmen to step in where the public sector would just screw things up. I mean, look at all the flak Medicare gets for transferring tax dollars to impoverished physicians. Don't you think doctors have problems covering payments on those beach houses, with the economy...
...revive during the recovery, but much of the money has gone for computers and automation devices, rather than for the heavy machinery and new factories needed for long-term growth. Spending for construction of industrial plants fell 24% last year, and is expected to be flat in 1984. Businessmen seem to be reluctant to make investments that will not return a sure profit within a short time. Explains Robert Ortner, chief economist of the U.S. Commerce Department: "There is a fear that deficits will strangle the economy, which creates uncertainty. And uncertainty is always detrimental to long-term business decisions...
...register Hispanic voters in Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona. Project VOTE wants to reach people in cheese and unemployment lines, and Frontlash is gunning for voting-age youths. Meanwhile, from the right side of the spectrum, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is putting together a booklet to encourage businessmen to vote, and the Republican National Committee is making special efforts to enlist members of the armed forces and evangelicals...
...over the collective GOP face, which is why Republicans are spending so much money for relatively few votes. But they are treading carefully. The Republicans and their allies especially the Chamber of Commerce and the Moral Majority-want to tap only those constituencies they are after-in particular businessmen, young professionals, people who live near army bases, and evangelical Christians; otherwise, they could awaken a sleeping giant...
...plot has two businessmen, Matthew Hollis (Michael Caine) and Victor Lyons (Joseph Bologna), their marriages in disarray, renting a house in Rio in order to share a vacation with their adolescent daughters. Whereupon Jennifer Lyons (Michelle Johnson, whose awkwardness may be attributed in part to the fact that she is a model rather than an actress and in part to the fact that she is required to do about half her scenes nude to the waist) seduces "Uncle Matthew." The joke-if the word can be applied here-is that she is cool and sophisticated, while he gets all flustered...