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Countryman, who has yet to recapture the form that look him to the NCAA Championships last spring, said yesterday more pace work in the next few weeks will cure his ailments. "It's just a matter of doing 100s over and over until your body gets used to the proper pace...
...REAGAN ADMINISTRATION's assault on the 20th century continued last week, and its target was a big one: the federal government's traditional commitment to defending civil rights. Reagan supported legislation approved by the Senate would severely limit the judiciary's authority to prescribe busing as a cure for school segregation...
...Administration plainly plans to stick to its conviction that its program of tax and budget cuts will revive the economy and eventually cure the triad of economic troubles: high inflation, high unemployment, high interest rates. Liberal and conservative economists tend to agree that the only real solution to unemployment is to focus on the entire economic picture. To a certain extent, though, the Administration's goals are contradictory in a faltering economy. "In large measure, you're stuck with a choice between unemployment and inflation," says Economist Rudolph Penner of the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank...
...pushing its revolutionary program of budget and tax cuts to cure the nation of nagging economic ills, the Administration realized that some suffering was inevitable. Indeed, the White House anticipated a rise in unemployment during the early stages of the program; it was felt that a hike in joblessness was necessary to dampen wage demands and cool inflation, which Reagan regarded as the nation's chief economic problem. But Administration officials never expected that the rate would surge so high or inflict so much hardship...
Many Congressmen and economists reject the remedy of job programs to cure unemployment. "It's like trying to put a Band-Aid on a cancer after it's already grown, instead of preventing it in the first place," says Democratic Senator Bill Bradley of New Jersey. Observes Barry Bosworth, an economist at the Brookings Institution: "A federal job program inevitably turns into nothing more than an income-maintenance program, for the simple reason that when workers graduate from training programs, there are still no jobs for them. In a couple of months, 10 million people are going...