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...Governors who attended the National Governors' Association conference last week were hardly feeling sportive. They spent three days in tense, often heated discussion of the enormous political and fiscal problems handed to the states under President Reagan's "new federalism." Said Wisconsin Governor Lee Dreyfus: "There is some apprehension on the part of the Governors that we are getting the short end of the stick." Said Tennessee's Lamar Alexander: "We have nothing to go dancing up and down the boardwalk about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gee Thanks, Ronnie, but... | 8/24/1981 | See Source »

...Chesterfield's father shared the President's sentiment, Lord Chesterfield's son might never have received those noble letters to which he paid no attention, but which have instructed the world for centuries. Zola would not have fired off his blunt "J'accuse" on the Dreyfus case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Don't Write Any Letters | 6/22/1981 | See Source »

That was why he could continue to praise Degas, while in the wake of the Dreyfus affair, Degas, like the anti-Semite he was, brutally snubbed him. Painting could not heal everything, but it represented for Pissarro a corrected world, all relations manifest, all unities achieved, hopeful, measurable and decent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Impressionism's Oak-Tree Uncle | 6/15/1981 | See Source »

...eight-year high. The market eased off later to end the week at 994.78. Wall Street has been strong since last fall, when polls showed that Ronald Reagan might defeat Jimmy Carter and bring a more pro-business atmosphere to Washington. Says Monte J. Gordon, research director for Dreyfus Corp., a large New York investment firm: "Reagan has been an aphrodisiac for the market...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Unexpected Signs of Health | 4/6/1981 | See Source »

...Dreyfus dilemma is shared by many of his fellow Governors, especially in states that have adopted strong tax limitation measures. After the 1978 passage of California's Proposition 13, which slashed property levies by 57%, tax-cut fever spread across the nation like an exotic strain of flu. Yet state officials, who only a year or two ago were burning with the fever, now find themselves trying to balance their budgets, keep from raising taxes, and avoid cutting back on services - all at the same time. Even where there have not been moves to limit taxes, the Reagan Administration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Taxing Dilemma for the States | 2/23/1981 | See Source »

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