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Though there is no chance that Congress will enact the President's budget intact, his proposals offer a rough guide to who might be hurt by the spending reductions everyone agrees are inevitable. Even if Congress reaches some alternative, or if Gramm-Rudman-Hollings comes into play, the programs targeted by the President are bound to be affected. With so much cutting to be done, and more than half of the budget (Social Security, other entitlements and interest on the national debt) legally or politically off limits, almost every discretionary spending program will be at risk. Among the areas...
...sold some 125 million creatures, or an average of eleven of them to each boy in the U.S. between the ages of five and ten. Children collect the 6-in. plastic figures ($5 to $7), whose personalities reflect a blend of medieval and outer-space themes, in order to enact imaginary battles between good and evil. The virtuous leader is He-Man, who fights a never-ending crusade against wicked Skeletor. So far, Mattel has produced 34 other characters, six companion creatures, nine vehicles and three hideouts. This season's oddest new villain: Stinkor, a skunk-striped meanie who actually...
...action that would do the most good: chopping the budget deficit. That would permit an effective dollar devaluation, which would benefit trade far more than any other conceivable legislation. But it would require cuts in Government spending going well beyond any that Congress is preparing to enact this fall, and probably tax increases as well. Moving to limit imports is so much easier, but so much more costly in the long...
...past two years, anti-pornography feminist groups have tried to enact identical laws in Minneapolis, Indianapolis, Los Angeles, and New York. But in August, a U.S. Court of Appeals upheld a lower court ruling that an Indianapolis statute, similar to the Cambridge proposal, was unconstitutional...
Under Massachusetts law, ordinary citizens can file a petition demanding that a certain measure which the government has not adopted be referred to the voters. When presented with a legally certified initiative petition, a city council must either enact the proposed ordinance or put it on the ballot. In this case, Cambridge lawmakers chose neither option...