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Though the First Ladies managed to keep the summit's distaff side free of controversy, White House Chief of Staff Donald Regan did not fare so well. On the eve of the meeting, Regan advised the Washington Post, in an interview about the wives' press role, that many of the paper's female readers would not understand "throw-weights or what is happening in Afghanistan or what is happening in human rights. Most women . . . would rather read the human-interest stuff of what happened." The remarks predictably infuriated feminists and provided news-starved journalists with a few stories. When reporters...
...illustrate the plan's impact, the accounting firm of Coopers & Lybrand did a study for TIME based on computer models of how some typical taxpayers would fare. A family of four in Moline, III., with a total income of $25,000 would pay $1,778 in federal taxes under the current law and $1,693 under the Ways and Means proposal. A young, single executive in New York City earning $25,000 would go from a current tax of $3,527 to $3,553. A childless couple in Los Angeles with a combined salary of $82,000 and rental income...
This has been a banner year for food lovers. Ever more bizarre victuals found their way to specialty grocery stores, and a frenzy of new restaurants swept across the land. The cooking of the Southwest began to eclipse Cajun fare as our high-status regional cuisine--small wonder, when the gumbos, jambalayas and red beans of Louisiana became overworked into clichés. Its most overrated specialty, blackened redfish, is a culinary travesty. Scorched spices encrust the fish and mask its delicate flavor. There were contradictions, too, as Americans pumped iron to stay thin, then tried to maintain status by eating...
...state directed and turned over all food produced to the state for distribution. Pay was based on a system of "work points" that bore little relation to production: a peasant would accumulate a certain number of work points for planting rice seedlings, for example, but he or she would fare no better if the eventual crop was large than if it was small...
...Some of them forget that they've had a baby," a social worker says. "They pick up their life at home," leaving a marginal baby in the hospital's care. Some literally do not have bus fare to visit. Nurses tend to get frustrated and move on quickly. "Why don't these parents love their babies?" one asked when she quit recently...