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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this drama, life is a prize ring without winners. Survival is all. The characters hit the canvas, but they never stay down for the count. Their heads are bloodied, but there is a salty irrepressible humor on their lips. In sum, A Taste of Honey is a profile in the beleaguered courage of outcasts...
...Boll Weevils fear big deficits and are thus not enthusiastic about major tax cuts: Reagan so far can count on support from no more than 20 of the 27 Democrats he will need to swing the vote for 5-10-10, assuming all House Republicans hold firm...
...human rights. Our Administration is pledged to human rights. Some feel we must shout from the rooftops and humiliate countries in order to effect change. We don't agree. But the debate is not enhanced by name-calling or moralizing or questioning our motives. Results are what count, not rhetorical confrontation...
Congress and the financial community are currently considering a variety of ways to help thrift institutions. The result, in any case, will certainly be a reduction in their number during the next few years. The lucky savings and loans may be like the Count of Sieyes, who, when asked what he did during the French Revolution's Reign of Terror, gave the legendary reply: "I survived...
America lost 56,480 men in Viet Nam, the last irreclaimable body count. The nation also misplaced many thousands of men and women who did make it home. To embrace them now may be a complicated, belated and awkward exercise, but it should be done-done with a clear historical eye, without pity or jingo or other illusions. It would mitigate an injustice and might even improve the nation's collective mental health. It would help to settle America's tedious quarrel with itself. Americans should be able to repeat Robert Lowell's line in a calm...