Word: congressmen
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...seems as if everyone has something to say about the salaries in baseball: newscasters, congressmen, Johnny Carson, Penthouse, even political columnists. Why should anyone, they say, who hits a ball with a stick around a grass field earn more than the president of the United States? College graduates ought to pass up law, medicine, and business, and head for the baseball diamond. With all due respect to the fans, commentators, columnists, and owners who utter cries of indignation at those fat contracts and predict the demise of the game, there are a number of justifications for the players' present bargaining...
...difficult task for the Carter men, because the President's reasons for scuttling the rebate were primarily political rather than economic. The rebate faced strong opposition on Capitol Hill since many Congressmen doubted it would be effective, and Carter chose not to fight for it at the same time that he was launching his embattled energy program. An additional embarrassment to the policymakers: shortly before they appeared in front of the committee, the Administration lowered its forecast of economic growth for the year a notch to 4.9% (see chart), and raised its prediction of the 1977 inflation rate...
That approach is in keeping with the curiously muted tone that the whole debate has so far assumed-and is likely to retain for a while. Republican Congressmen, who have promised an energy program of their own, have as yet been unable to agree on what it should be. Several will be going on TV this week -on an ABC special-but to take individual potshots at parts of the program, not to unveil a comprehensive alternative. Executives of industries that fear they will be hurt by the energy package-oilmen, automakers, utility chiefs -are determined to maintain the statesmanlike...
...case, no groundswell of public enthusiasm can yet be detected. The Boston Globe did get a lot of mail on the energy plan, most of it favorable -almost as many letters as poured in last November when it temporarily dropped the popular Doonesbury comic strip. But on Capitol Hill, Congressmen almost unanimously described their energy mail as light to moderate. "It's an absolute drop in the bucket compared with saccharin," said Melody Miller, a Ted Kennedy aide...
Most of the people who wrote to their Congressmen favored the Carter energy plan too, but a pattern potentially ominous for the Administration emerged. Nearly all the constituents who praised the program spoke in generalities; nearly all those who mentioned specific parts of the plan denounced them-above all, the proposal to enact stand-by taxes on gasoline. It is just that combination of generalized, but lukewarm, support and fierce opposition to specifics that could knock out important chunks of the program, leaving it shapeless. Those folks the Administration sends out to chat on TV may have a tough...