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...massive tax increases. Last week Reagan moved toward a difficult decision: he would not keep his pledge to balance the budget, but would hold firm to his 1982 tax cuts and permit only limited tax hikes later. At the same time, he would ask an increasingly rebellious Congress to enact even more horrendous future slashes in spending...
...rewarding on a personal level, he is disappointed at the pathetic reaction of the public and the state legislature to the report. The stories of corruption did receive publicity for a short time--hey filled an entire section of one day's Boston Globe--and the legislature eventually did enact three laws to reform the system for awarding contracts. But Ward questions the determination of state officials to attack the problem, recalling that the first appointee to the new watchdog office of Inspector General, a post created in response to the commission's report, said in his first press conference...
Between 1970 and fiscal 1981, the cost of living rose 138%, yet in that same period federal spending on entitlement programs more than quadrupled, from $70 billion to $295 billion. Despite the initial scaling down of benefit formulas that Reagan has persuaded Congress to enact in some programs, entitlement
...good to individual advancement. The danger for students is that someday, they may wake up to find all their power usurped. The greater danger, for administrators, is that they may arise to find a student body angered by forays like those of the Faculty Council--and prepared to re-enact the struggles of the late 1960s against forces that today seem eerily the same...
...under the Doctrine of Discontinuous Selves. It simply declares one's self to be defunct, out of business; from that pile of ash a new self will arise. In the democracy of neurosis, everyone is entitled to his own apocalypse. Burnout becomes the mechanism by which people can enact their serial selves, in somewhat the way that divorce permits serial marriages. In some cases, the serial selves of burnout are like the marshmallows that Cub Scouts thrust into the campfire flame. They hold them there until they are charred, peel away the blackened outer skin and eat it, then...