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Another issue then came to the forefront. Even Bush and his advisers had been concerned about whether Tower could be expected to clamp down on defense spending. After all, he had enthusiastically advanced Ronald Reagan's $2.2 / trillion arms buildup. Prepped by Rhett Dawson, one of his former committee aides who had moved to the Reagan White House and was tapped by Bush to be Secretary of the Army, Tower impressed the President-elect with a plan to implement neglected Pentagon reforms advocated in 1986 by the Packard commission...
While the National Guard may still close armories used for recreational purposes, it will not clamp down on the shelters, Grossman said...
...nascent service-charge movement began with Congress, which started in 1982 to clamp down on one of the country's biggest tax dodges: the failure to report billions of dollars in tips. Laws now require restaurateurs to monitor waiters' tips for the Internal Revenue Service, as well as pay federal unemployment and Social Security taxes on such income. "It's a lot of extra work. We have to spend time keeping records because the Government doesn't want to," said Don O'Neill, the owner of the Spring House restaurant in Pittsford...
...have no plan to clamp down and squash the crits," Clark said...
...biggest fear among law-abiding Chicago traders and brokers is that evidence of shady dealings will inspire Washington to clamp down on the freewheeling markets. Already Texas Democrat Kika de la Garza, chairman of the House Agriculture Committee, plans to investigate the Chicago exchanges. Congress could decide to beef up the relatively tiny agency that oversees the Chicago markets, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, or transfer the authority to the Securities and Exchange Commission. "Figuratively speaking, at least," laments a futures broker, "there'll be police in the pits from...