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...have the cart before the horse. The problem is not rising prices but devaluation of the U.S. dollar caused by Washington's gross overspending. No government can spend to the brink of bankruptcy without causing inflation...
...there, all right, for things that don't show-new slate roof tiles and the children's education." Morgan's determined innocence can lead him to odd perceptions: "Tottery old ladies, people you wouldn't trust to navigate a grocery cart, are heading two-ton cars in your direction at speeds of 70 miles per hour. Our lives depend on total strangers...
Last week the Senate Banking Committee upset the carefully stacked apple cart when it voted 10 to 5 not to approve the Administration's bill. That would have given $1.5 billion of federal loan guarantees, if the company managed to raise a similar amount of nonguaranteed loans. Both liberal Democrats and conservative Republicans on the committee concluded that this plan was too soft and generous; it did not ask for any specific financial sacrifice from workers, dealers, suppliers, shareholders and bankers...
...agency intensified a holy war against breakfast cereal companies; it has proposed breaking them up and banning ads for presweetened cereals from Saturday morning's TV cartoon shows. An FTC-proposed rule warned that such ads were enticing children to "surreptitiously" sneak cereals into Mom's shopping cart. Washington wags quipped that the FTC would soon ban peanut butter because it stuck to the roof of the mouth...
...Cart Man uses few words, The Story of an English Village (Atheneurm; $7.95) is totally mute. Still, John S. Goodall's watercolors are eloquent enough to carry the progress of a British town from medieval beginnings to its present state. In other hands, the use of half pages overlaid on full ones might be a gimmick. But Goodall's visual narrative is so controlled, and his costumes and customs so accurate, that history assumes a personality. Moving by lively steps, it arranges hemlines and coats, advances from midwives to doctors, from town criers to village schools...