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...swing voters in that coalition were blue-collar workers who strayed from the Democratic fold. To them, economic recovery, by whatever means, is far more important than keeping the ideological faith. "If this deficit keeps ballooning," says a presidential adviser, "the political losses we will suffer will make the political losses from raising taxes look like nothing." In order to fend off wholesale electoral trouble, Reagan will keep pushing for new taxes in an effort to reduce deficits and steady the economy. He will have to endure right-wing carping, but political logic is with him. Says a White House...
Turner fared only slightly better using standard UHF programming: cheaply acquired reruns, repackaged old movies, sports. Then he had a moment of inspiration: Why not expand his station's audience many fold, and thus make it far more appealing to advertisers, by beaming its signal via satellite to cable-TV systems around the country, in effect creating another network? The start-up would be costly and risky; cable operators might take the programming, but they would probably not pay for it, and advertisers were at best dubious that Turner could actually deliver a measurable increase in viewership. Moreover...
...just four years, the number of full-time students has increased eight-fold, and the school now offers short-term special training sessions in addition to normal degree-granting programs...
...intimates that female activists--who owed their ascendancy to Democratic initiatives--largely discredited those moves toward political equality by stubbornly pushing obstructionist feminist convention planks that divided the major parties. Other scattered observations reinforce the impression that after 22 years, White has left the New Frontier-Great Society fold...
...Press was the tenth metropolitan editorial voice to be stilled in the past year. The collapse of the Washington Star and Philadelphia Bulletin left those cities at least temporarily with one newspaper ownership. The New York Daily News Tonight and the Minneapolis Star were folded into morning editions published by the same companies; the Des Moines Tribune is scheduled for the same fate. Competing morning and evening news staffs have been merged by owners in Dayton, Duluth, Atlanta and Fort Lauderdale. Fold-or-sell rumors persist for the Hearst-owned Boston Herald American...