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...pockets of low and middle income taxpayers but instead in the bulging wallets of corporate executives and stockholders. Residential property owners would receive only 57 per cent of the benefits of the tax cuts, with the balance going to industry. And in older, poorer cities like Cambridge, which largely depend on industry for their tax base, only 43 per cent of the total reductions would benefit residential homeowners...
Liberals, in general, die hard. Like rats learnning to love poisoned cheese, these mavericks seem to have turned their unorthodoxy into something of an advantage. But the conservative winds are blowing stronger than usual this year; as professional pols always say, the outcome will depend on the weather
...Lorain-Elyria Journal, "A Great Newspaper You Can Depend On," endorsed Ronald Reagan in its Sunday edition. "Forget who belongs to which party and all that. Forget the campaign cliches that play on our emotions. Let's face it. The country is in sad economic shape...
That the choice of who will govern the nation for four years may well depend on the acts of a hostile, often irrational Iranian government and the impression two carefully rehearsed politicians make in a fleeting 90 minutes of TV time is deeply disquieting. But in a sense the election has been building toward that kind of bizarre climax. For more than a year, two flawed candidates have been floundering toward the final showdown, each unable to give any but his most unquestioning supporters much reason to vote for him except dislike of his opponent. Carter has been dogged...
...beginning of the debate, moderator Howard K. Smith turned to the Music Hall audience and sardonically announced: "Welcome to Las Vegas on the lake, where a lot may depend on one throw of the dice...