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...ever said that cutting the budget would be easy, but for one top staffer at the Office of Management and Budget it has become a real nightmare. When W. Bowman Cutter, the aptly named Associate Director of OMB, drifts off to sleep these nights, his dreams run regularly to visions of hands that keep grabbing at him from all directions. The symbolism is plain: the hands belong to various interest groups that are desperately appealing to him to be exempted from budget cutbacks. Less than a month remains before Jimmy Carter presents to Congress his spending program for fiscal...
...former potato field. Well suited and priced for ex-G.I.s, Levittown soon became synonymous with instant and inexpensive suburban living: a home of one's own, a plot of land, no big city problems, no industry. Levittown also became a symbol of cookie-cutter suburban sameness (immortalized by Pete Seeger in a song about "little boxes made of ticky-tacky...
...California, the key to Brown's victory was his success in convincing voters that he was, as he put it, a "born-again tax cutter." This was a self-deprecating, tongue-in-cheek reference to his original opposition to Proposition 13, the tax-slashing referendum that Californians overwhelmingly approved in June...
...year ago, had probably the finest organization of any county candidate outside of Harshbarger. This, and the fact that he was the only attorney in the three-man primary field, was the basis for his successful campaign. Cavanaugh triumphed in September by approximately 50,000 votes over Somerville meat-cutter Francis X. Donahue and former high school baseball star Leonard F. "Deacon" Doyle...
...this behavior, Brown has not won the endorsement but certainly the blessing of the most popular figure in the state, Howard Jarvis, author of Proposition 13. Jarvis originally appeared in a TV ad praising Younger for successfully opposing the legal challenge to Proposition 13. But then the tax cutter decided to help out the Governor as well. He cut a tape praising Brown: "Sure, I wrote Proposition 13, but it takes a dedicated Governor to make it work...