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...reform has been subverted over the years by the proliferation of lobbyists and the spiraling cost of election campaigns, two trends that go together like a hand and a pocket. The result has often been institutional paralysis. The very fact that Congress and the White House felt compelled to enact the Gramm-Rudman measure, requiring automatic spending cuts, is a monument to the inability of weak-willed legislators to say no to the lobbyists who buzz around them...
...moment, Mikhail Gorbachev appears to have the prestige, backing and energy to enact his plans for revivifying the economy. But without basic changes in the rigid restrictions of a central planning system, it is doubtful that he can turn the country into an efficient economic competitor with the West...
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...