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...caller was David Brockway, staff chief of the Joint Committee on Taxation, relaying bad news: the numbers would not balance. If new projections of slower growth in the economy were correct, the tax increase on business would be only $114 billion, and the cut for individuals would be $131 billion, leaving a $17 billion gap. Packwood and Rostenkowski quickly agreed on how to raise $7 billion, but deadlocked on the remaining $10 billion. "It's a blow to us to have been so close and yet so far," said Rostenkowski as they broke late Thursday night. "He and I almost...
...oddest aspects of the name game is the spreading practice of not identifying oneself on the telephone. It started a few years ago as a kind of compliment: it meant that you and your caller were good friends, and it made perfect sense if you talked with somebody a lot. But as the practice has grown, it has become more of a test: you are not only supposed to know the voice that you may not have heard for a month but to know it immediately. Any hesitation is apt to lead to a pained, "You don't even recognize...
...work of the same person; thus it seemed the culprit had access to the facility at the same time on both nights. Another important tip came from an accountant vacationing in Florida who had overheard a revealing conversation about Captain Midnight at a pay phone. He took down the caller's license-plate number and gave it to the authorities. The auto was linked to MacDougall...
...caller asked several personal questions, including whether she had ever applied to the Harvard Business School. Initially, Spence recalled, she thought it was an obscene call from "a pervert with an MBA fetish...
...research project." Members of the Trilateral Commission meeting in Madrid last month received harassing phone calls from people who posed as Israeli journalists seeking information about the foreign policy organization, which LaRouchites believe is part of a sinister conspiracy of international financiers. When one Trilateralist asked if the caller was a LaRouche follower, he sputtered in confusion and broke off the conversation...