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...markets appeared to be elated that the election outcome seems unlikely to bring about any major shifts in economic policy. Some financial analysts were concerned that if the Democrats gained control of Congress, the lawmakers might enact a big emergency spending program to create new jobs. That would speed up the recovery, but could also rekindle inflation...
...BALLOT CAN BE an amazingly blunt tool for conveying political preferences. Ronald Reagan took his party's 1980 landslide as a national endorsement of a very specific right-wing agenda, and over the next two years he and his congressional colleagues proceeded to enact a shocking amount of the 1980 Republican platform. The beating taken by conservative candidates in last week's midterm elections suggests Reagan's interpretation was too hasty and too sweeping. America two years ago now appears to have been demanding an end to four years of Democratic ineptitude, not signifying broad support for supply-side economics...
...trick or treat" patrols, organized by Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci and other city officials after the city council refused to enact an outright trick-or-treating bun, were staffed by Cambridge and Harvard police city teachers, and other volunteers...
...founder of the state's Conservative Union, plans to study Article 5 of the United States Constitution, which has been the subject of national debate in recent years. Opponents of abortion and forced school busing have invoked Article 5, which outlines procedure for constitutional conventions, in their attempt to enact constitutional curbs on such practices...
...esprit with a vengeance, its principal characters, like so many of Fowles' earlier creations, held in thrall by forces they cannot quite explain. Erato and Miles are prisoners of gender. When they squabble, as they do throughout the rest of the novel, they helplessly re-enact timeless wars between the sexes...