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...rating "as a leader you can trust" is virtually the same as Jimmy Carter's was at the same month of 1977. One key difference is that Reagan's level of approval has risen 9% since January (to 57%), while Carter's rating was on a downward slide. Majorities ranging from 71% to 52% agreed with the propositions that Reagan had lived up to his campaign promises in six key areas: working effectively with Congress, providing strong leadership in government, providing moral leadership, keeping U.S. defenses strong, getting rid of waste in government and making Americans feel...
...formula for calculating initial benefits for those who retire at 65 or over after 1982 would be jiggered downward over the next five years. The average worker retiring in 1987, for example, would get $719 a month under the present law, but would receive only $691.90 under Reagan's proposal...
...Kennedy's chief economic adviser, expects that an economic slowdown in the next month or two will pull down the cost of borrowing money. John E. Barnds, vice president, business and banking analysis at the National Bank of Detroit, feels the "general trend of short-term rates is downward." In New York, H. Erich Heinemann, a vice president of Morgan Stanley, said, "I think we're living through a temporary bubble in interest rates that is not likely to persist...
...door to the closet with all the skeletons were only opened a few inches. It's too short, rarely pausing to give us the feel of the newsrooms--and what madhouses Hearst newsrooms and editor's offices usually were!--or to analyze in any depth the downward course of the American daily as exemplified by the Hearst empire...
...sophisticated qualities necessary for the prudent exercise of power and intelligent management of international relations-notably moral authority, self-confidence, respect for the rule of law, and political finesse-are stunted in the Soviet system and psychology. The present downward spiral of mutual mistrust and recrimination will clearly not lead to an inevitable nuclear apocalypse, but it can do a lot of damage just the same. It increases the difficulties and dangers involved in virtually every other international problem the U.S. faces. It thus follows that after a suitable interval the U.S. should take the initiative in statesmanship with...