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...televised speech appeared certain to deepen divisions caused by the report of an international panel of historians last week. The report questioned Waldheim's moral integrity and said he did nothing to stop Nazi atrocities during World War II despite being "in close proximity" to them...
Students were asked to confront the emotions that arise when dealing with life and death. Through this exercise, I hoped that my students would deepen their own selfawareness and, in doing that, develop a stronger respect for individuals and other creatures...
...anti-action case: the aftershock of the stock-market quake might tip the U.S. into a recession next year. And that is the wrong time to slash away at the deficit; tax boosts and cuts in Government spending would deepen any slump, because they would reduce the amount of money in consumers' hands. Some worriers go so far as to raise the ghost of Herbert Hoover, who slashed federal spending and persuaded Congress to raise income tax rates sharply in the wake of the 1929 Crash. Says University of Tennessee Economist Paul Davidson: "Cutting the deficit at this particular time...
...deficit steadily and substantially. Certainly these must include painful spending cuts. But ^ they must also include tax increases, much as Reagan hates the thought. Not because they are any panacea; indeed they carry a serious risk. Higher taxes might reduce consumer spending just when a recession is beginning, and deepen the slump. But no significant budget cut is possible without at least some sort of modest tax increase, and no progress toward solving the nation's fundamental economic problems is possible without a real deficit reduction...
Liddy Dole is neither mother nor housekeeper. She is a power broker who happens to have a North Carolina accent, which undoubtedly will deepen as the campaign wears on and she fields policy questions about nuclear arms, budgets, trade balances, airline safety. Strategic issues will not be escaped as they were by Nancy Reagan, who once joked that she had planned to discuss nuclear disarmament with her husband but decided instead to clean out his sock drawer. Liddy Dole will be expected to know -- and she will...