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...fresh uncertainties, intrigues and potential clashes. While Treasury Secretary, Regan seemed to relish a good brawl. He butted heads with Volcker and with Martin Feldstein, former chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers. After seriously considering efforts to kill the council, the President decided last week against such a drastic move. It is clear, however, that Regan will not take kindly to any economic advice that runs counter to his own beliefs. He had, for example, disputed Budget Director David Stockman's gloomy economic estimates. Stockman, already long wounded by his confession to the Atlantic Monthly in 1981 that federal...
...quartet decided to take drastic action. Off they went to a neighborhood car-rental agency, where they engaged a car for the next two days. They all piled in and drove a couple of hours' distance from Cambridge--far enough away so that no one they knew would be likely to stumble upon them. For the next day and a half, they locked themselves into a motel room, and crammed intensively for their organic final...
...another nation's internal affairs. The communication, which the State Department says was sent a few weeks ago by U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz to Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres, outlined specific steps that Washington thinks Israel should take to restructure its faltering economy. Shultz warned that unless drastic reforms are implemented, Israeli requests for U.S. aid could be in jeopardy. While the text of the document was not released, a U.S. embassy spokesman in Tel Aviv acknowledged last week that "it was a strong letter...
...markedly softened his once strident rhetoric toward the Soviets; Reagan wants to be remembered as the President who achieved a verifiable agreement reducing nuclear weapons. Domestically, the deficit Reagan ignored during the campaign is continuing to swell. To shrink it, Reagan is proposing cuts in Government spending even more drastic than those he achieved in 1981, while remaining adamant that the military gets virtually everything it feels it needs. He will require help on Capitol Hill if he is to win those budget cuts, but the Republican Party was unable to convert the President's electoral triumph into any significant...
...group of stockholders finally lost patience last July, when ITT slashed its quarterly dividend 64%, to 250. The dissidents started a letter-writing campaign urging ITT's management to take a highly drastic measure-liquidation-which they figured could net them twice the current value of their shares...