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Meanwhile the President began mulling over the hard choices in the renewed war on inflation. The major options: 1) draconian cuts in the fat budget for fiscal 1981 and perhaps even for 1980; 2) Executive action to enact a program of credit controls that would curb the growth of bank lending to businesses or consumers; 3) a new excise tax on gasoline in order to cut energy consumption and curb the inflationary import of foreign oil; and 4) a request to Congress for permission to levy wage and price controls...
...relative, no one can be there as fast with the ambulance. The spirit of Gemini is very precious, and its hero is the Drama: it makes these trivial people very grand, renders the corniest platitudes heroic and profound, and gives us insight into those big and little dramas we enact every day, performing to keep the cold...
House Speaker Tip O'Neill already has predicted that Congress will not agree to register women, so Carter decided to take no chances. The Administration will introduce two bills, one covering men, the other women. Thus male registration, which Carter wants Congress to enact immediately as a warning to the Soviets, will not be delayed by the debate over G.I. Jill...
...trying to cloak the emptiness and ineptness of his three-year-old foreign policy by relying on the political bromides that have swept generations of politicians into office. His political grandstanding obscures the fact that our present crisis is in many ways the product of our inability to enact a coherent energy policy...
Sophisticated debate also rages over whether to enact a cat-leash ordinance. George Welles, editor of the tiny Los Al amos Monitor, routinely gets letters correcting spelling and punctuation errors...