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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...then again, power corrupts and every politician-Black, white, rich, or poor-can fall under its charm. Every candidate is a reformer, but what he does as mayor is a different story. It is, as of now, too early to count out the political machine, no matter how many politicians sound its death knell...
With the 200 free next, the Crimson could't count on Chappell to appear in the fireplug role he has filled since the arrival of freshman destance specialist Tim Ford relieved him from the 1000 in mid-January...
Caught up in the momentum of a fresh Washington scandal, Capitol Hill was thick with shadowy suspicions, cover-up charges and three-ring theatrics last week. There was little new, substantive information to feed the six, count 'em six, congressional committees investigating allegations that the Environmental Protection Agency had made "sweetheart" deals with polluting companies and delayed cleanups of toxic-waste dumps for political reasons. But there was enough sound and fury to prove that the affair Capitol wags have dubbed Waste Watergate (Wastegate, for short) was, as one worried presidential aide put it, "out of control...
...second cost-cutting measure would count health-insurance contributions provided by private employers as taxable income. Many businesses now offer health insurance as a fringe benefit and deduct their contributions as a business expense. The change would affect insurance programs whose premiums exceed $70 a month for an employee ($175 a month for a family); some 50 million privately insured employees would be involved. The Reagan Administration maintains that the tax would raise $2.3 billion in 1984. It argues that the policy is principally a cost-control device that will induce workers to pressure their employers for less comprehensive insurance...
Every sitcom must have its bad guys, even as every war finds its black-market profiteers, body-count fanatics and suspicious spooks. M*A*S*H had its fair and flaky share, led by Frank Burns, the camp martinet. As Linville notes, Burns had "a mind that's obviously stripped its gears, and yet here he is standing over other human beings with a knife in his hand." At first, locked in a dead end affair with Frank, Hot Lips was simply a stock shrew, an excellent nurse but a failure as a woman. She was also attracted despite...