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...deficits that will fan inflation and keep interest rates high enough to abort a recovery from the present severe recession and possibly discourage the very business investment that both the Administration and Congress wanted to prompt. The latest Commerce Department survey shows that businessmen are actually planning a .5% cutback in their spending for new plant and equipment, adjusted for inflation, in 1982; such spending rose by a nearly invisible .3% last year...
...likability, as if still in need of an explanation as to how he stole away their constituency. As Mary McGrory put it, "Everyone knows the phenomenon: the newly jobless auto worker who still wants to 'give Reagan a chance'; the bus driver who is hit by the cutback in school lunch programs but who admires Reagan's stance against the Communists." Furthermore, she laments, "during his long march to the White House, Reagan, the hip-shooter, was often called to account. But as President, he is not." Right-wing columnists, such as William Safire, William F. Buckley...
...against the Soviet Union. Any punitive action directed toward the Soviet Union will not improve the situation in Poland, nor will it bring about hoped-for changes in Soviet policies around the world. Soviet oppression, like that of the U.S., cannot be stopped by an embargo or a trade cutback...
...future is now being threatened by new strikes over an eleven-minute reduction in that most sacrosanct of British workers' institutions: the tea break. The unions had earlier agreed to reduce daily tea and rest breaks from 51 minutes to 40 minutes in exchange for a cutback in the work week from 40 hours to 39 hours. But 2,200 workers, angry over their defeat on wages, decided to walk out. The strike halted production of 1,200 cars...
...group will sponsor concentrator meetings once or twice a month to discuss issues including this year's cutback in the number of junior faculty assigned to tutorials, and the construction and grading of general examinations, Budd said...