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...single most important issue any executive faces. The budget tells people not only what the administration's priorities are but--in hard times--who will suffer. Dukakis' biggest fault in approaching the budget is his determination to balance it as soon as he can. But balancing budgets is for flush times. Now, he is set on a path of cutbacks (much like that of a recent president) and those cutbacks (much like those of this same president) are digging into human service programs that are needed most now. His biggest cuts are aimed at, of all things, welfare. The absolutely...
...French cops know something Doyle does not. They are aware that he has been set up, that the French and American police forces are using him as a decoy to flush out Charnier (Fer nando Rey), the connection. The plan gets messy, however, when Charnier and his people sap Doyle in the street and drag him off to a seedy hotel, where for three long weeks they shoot him full of dope...
...outraged Dowager Lady Southwold to increase his allowance in exchange for suppressing his earlier diaries. Richard's middle-class daughter-in-law Hazel would surely stick up for the servants' right to publish, and James would profit from the occasion by borrowing ten ners from a suddenly flush Hudson. As for Mrs. Bridges, it is obvious that the good woman's recipe book would be come an alltime seller, she would retire to the Cotswolds - and Upstairs, Down stairs would be in the soup...
...informed of several shattering discoveries. Among them: a fatal flaw in Einstein's special theory of relativity, a motor that runs on psychic energy, and a page from Leonardo Da Vinci's newly discovered notebooks, the Madrid Codices, which conclusively prove that the Renaissance man invented the flush toilet 500 years ago. Respondents who are bombarding the magazine with telephone inquiries and letters are being advised to take a second look at the article. It is sprinkled with names like Ms. Henrietta Birdbrain and Robert Ripoff-as befits an April Fools' piece. Actually, the biggest giveaway...
...captive chicks are no more spiritually attractive than they are mentally alert. Nor are their hardships exactly heartrending. It is true that their cellar prison lacks fresh air, sunlight, comfy mattresses and a flush toilet and that the food is just not up to international cruise standards. Still, one cannot help thinking that a little down-and-out living may be good for them...