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...billion in spending cuts contained in last week's bill is dubious too. About half is to be taken out of Medicare (see box). But much of the rest reflects a shaky guess as to how much interest the Government might be able to save on future borrowings. Says a Government analyst: "All we can legitimately say is that without this package the deficit would be a lot higher. How much higher? Who knows...
...have a solid recovery that is going forward without a renewal of inflation," said the President, setting the theme for his campaign oratory. The White House will mention the deficit only when it cannot avoid doing so, then claim somewhat dubious credit for getting a start on controlling it and pledge "to reduce the deficit even more in 1985," as White House Spokesman Larry Speakes puts it. The President evidently feels no embarrassment about agreeing to, and even urging, a second round of tax changes (the first round came two years ago) that take back some of the reductions enacted...
When faced with the incomprehensible, the average American frequently reaches for the nearest statistic. Computers help promote this national mania by providing an easy way to churn out sometimes dubious quantifications. Last week a Joint Economic Committee study of the effects of the economy on health showed how easily pseudostatistical precision can be taken for fact...
...guilt or responsibility. "In a cycle"-no beginning and no end-insinuates an indeterminateness in the relationship between the two men: Someone may have started this, but who can tell and what does it matter? (Nor is this the first time Jackson has pressed the cycle image into dubious service. Remember his "cycle of pain" in Lebanon, as if Navy Lieut. Robert Goodman, the flyer for the American peace-keeping force that had lost more than 250 men to terrorist attack, and President Hafez Assad, who had at least acquiesced in that attack, were equal partners in crime?) Having framed...
...long overdue in American politics. But to believe that females in positions of power might be "nicer" than their male counterparts is naive. Cruelty and inhumanity are not exclusively male domains, just as compassion and respect for human dignity are not restricted to women. Instead of looking for dubious areas of distinction, we should look at an individual's capabilities, regardless of gender...