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...After all, the President was speaking to the Evangelicals. When he appears at a business convention, he naturally focuses on economics. When he delivers the State of the Union speech, he talks about the nation. There is nothing improper about the President's allowing his religious beliefs to creep into a speech at an Evangelical meeting...
Some blame inflation, which has eroded real living standards and cramped the traditional assumption that hard work would pay off in an improving future. Some blame the inflationary phenomenon known as "bracket creep," by which almost every increase in salary, even if it merely keeps one even with the rise in the cost of living, puts the recipient in a higher tax bracket and thus brings a relatively greater increase in taxes owed. These are economic reasons, and tax evasion obviously has major economic roots fed not only by inflation but by recession. Yet tax evasion is also a moral...
...support and assistance, businessmen in such smokestack industries as automaking and steel turned to Washington, demanding curbs on imports of foreign-made goods to preserve American markets for American companies. Though the Reagan Administration remained publicly committed to free trade, as the year dragged on, protectionism began to creep slowly into the U.S.'s dealings with other nations on trade matters...
...fall in inflation. The rate of price rise in the economy has already been slowed from 12% to 9.8% during 1982, and Chevalier expects further fractional improvement during the year ahead if unions continue to show wage moderation. Meanwhile unemployment, now at 9% of the French labor force, will creep up to 9.8% before peaking...
...Well, the sports world is full of interesting people." Malin says, and allows an offhandedness that could almost be called smug to creep into the apparent unconsciousness of anything unusual about this life. "I guess there are worse things, he says. "What to work for Harvard are and the New York Cosmos...