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...competing congressional tax plans illustrate the clash of various groups. A Democratic bill sponsored by New Jersey Senator Bill Bradley and Missouri Congressman Richard Gephardt is called the Fair Tax Act. A Republican proposal termed the Fair and Simple Tax Act is advocated by Wisconsin Senator Robert Kasten and New York Congressman Jack Kemp. The basic approaches...
...fought on two levels. On one level were the classic issues, all sprayed over with statistics and figures: disputed factoids of missile and nuclear capability, of budget entitlements, of thunderhead deficits that could prove anything any candidate wanted to prove. Yet underneath, more enduring and more important, was a clash between American cultures. At bottom the candidates were talking about the community of Americans, torn by enormous surges of new forces, bewildered by how to greet or resist them. The campaign was about how we live together-in short, about our culture as a nation in change...
Through the two candidates, two Americas were trying to define themselves-a new America, struggling to be born, not necessarily promising, and an old America, its virtues not necessarily outworn. In this clash, Ronald Reagan...
...clash of cultures in the campaign ended in the spurious debate on church and state...
Last Saturday's Harvard-Penn clash for the Ivy League football championship garnered an average T.V. rating of 0.5, according to Greg Harney, producer of the Ivy League Game of the Week on the PUblic Broadcasting System...