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...game for dinner parties. I ask presidential critics of either far right or left what they will do next year if the economy really is better and the nukes are still in their silos. One fellow nearly choked on his lamb chop. Most have only a second or two of panic before they assemble their rebuttals on Reagan's "luck" (the oil glut) and "providence" (Brezhnev died). Who was the guy who wrote that if we've got to have a lucky...
...legislation would chop through the regulatory thicket that has helped to prop up prices. It would deregulate all gas by January 1986 and, in a stunning departure from the Administration's free-market principles, would exercise a rarely used federal power by throwing open long-term contracts between producers and pipelines for immediate renegotiation...
...this kind of diplomatic tightrope walking that is considered long before the Queen packs her traveling kit. Nearly a year before she gave her first royal wave (a sort of gentle, repeating karate chop with the hand slightly cupped), her schedule for the entire tour had been mapped out to the minute and the mouthful. Last November the Queen's press secretary, Michael Shea, walked every inch of the path that the Queen will tread during her tour. Everywhere she goes, the Queen is equipped with a precise tip sheet briefing her on names and issues to be either...
Ultimately, of course, too much money can wind up being as damaging to an economy as too little. While the Fed walks the razor's edge between economic collapse and runaway inflation, it badly needs the support of both the Congress and the Administration to curb spending, chop the deficit and prevent the nation's current economic troubles, and the bond market's jitters, from turning into something far worse. -By Christopher Byron. Reported by David Beckwith/Washington and Frederick Ungeheuer/New York
...senior guard Calvin Dixon swished a high-arching jumper, then bounced back to commit a well-timed foul. Crusader failures at the line coupled with four free throws, compliments of sophomore Bob Ferry and Co-Captain George White to chop the Crusader lead to two. But when Wildes' lay-up slipped off of the rim, the Crimson comeback had failed...