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...Executive has received from Congress in recent years, read parts of his speech too fast. No matter that the speech itself, studded with statistics, lacked Reagan's unique verbal tang. The potential, far-reaching importance of what he offered, of what he urged the legislators to accept and enact, was there. His program was detailed in a 281-page volume called America 's New Beginning: A Program for Economic Recovery, which Congress had already received. The numbers alone were startling enough: $467 billion less federal spending, combined with $709 billion in tax savings for individuals and businesses, over...
...business community and the public that he not only can shape but can begin to execute a coherent, comprehensive plan to combat both inflation and recession. Political and economic cycles whirl too rapidly these days to give him any more time than that. Congress must be persuaded to enact some of the hotly controversial cuts in federal spending before the momentum generated by Reagan's landslide election victory begins to ebb. Financiers, businessmen, workers and consumers must be assured that a real change is coming before they harden in their belief that double-digit inflation, recurrent recessions and towering...
...Cambridge City Council last night voted to ask the state legislature for permission to enact measures to offset the effects of Proposition 2 1/2 on the city...
...exactly how much such crime costs; often the losses are not even reported by embarrassed companies. But the larceny clearly is far from petty. It may well run to hundreds of millions of dollars a year. Last January, California became the first state to enact a computer-fraud law, allowing fines of up to $5,000 and three years' imprisonment. Still, warns Donn Parker of SRI International, a leading scholar of electronic theft: "By the end of the 1980s, computer crimes could cause economic chaos...
...Republican Party sets about forging what Rusher calls "a new majority coalition" to enact Reagan's programs Bill Buckley expects to be kept quite busy in his chosen role at National Review watching, criticizing, correcting his fel low conservatives in the ways of the faith articulating new positions for them - anc for Reagan. Says the editor of the President's favorite magazine: "I'm changing my entry in Who's Who. Under profession, instead of editor, I am going to put ventriloquist...