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...America wants tax reform," said President Reagan in Concord, N.H., last week, "and America is going to get tax reform." On the same day in Washington, congressional leaders predicted that despite the presidential pressure, the tax plan will go nowhere in 1985. "I don't think it has any chance of getting through Congress this year," said House Speaker Tip O'Neill after a meeting with other top lawmakers to set the fall legislative agenda. Time is a key factor: even optimists concede that the House will not vote on a tax bill before late October. That would leave...
Mary Costa, a resident of the flooded Bristol Arms apartment building, walked into the National Guard Armory on Concord Ave. around 10 a.m. yesterday equipped with her cribbage board, playing cards, and rosary. Costa said she would stay at the armory "as long as they can stand...
Some stores, deciding that clothes make the cyclist, have dispensed with stocking bikes altogether. The Bicycle Outfitter, a Los Altos, Calif., retailer, launched a clothing-only store in Sausalito, outside San Francisco, five months ago and has just opened another one in Concord, near Oakland. Fittingly, these haberdasheries look like boutiques more than bike shops, with dressing rooms, mirrors, carpeted floors and female personnel to help women customers feel as if they are buying haute couture rather than sporting goods...
Shreveport was the first stop on an eight-city tour designed by Bennett to focus attention on "the art of teaching." Also on the list are Washington; St. Louis and Clayton, Mo.; Osburn, Idaho; San Jose; Raleigh, N.C.; and Concord, N.H., where Bennett will sub for Sharon Christa McAuliffe, who is preparing for her January trip aboard the space shuttle. Bennett, a University of Texas Ph.D. in philosophy, who has taught at several universities, said he found teaching "one of the toughest jobs anyone could possibly have...
...like other well-laid plans in Rosegrant's life, this ambition was soon replaced. The summer after her sophomore year, she decided to give her ecological bent "one last try," studying plants and animals at a site in Concord. But the vote for the life of a naturalist was a unanimous "No" among her psychic constituents. "I couldn't pick up a book and study mountain gorrillas because it didn't interest me anymore," she says of that turn-around summer...