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These lofty numbers have considerable emotional resonance. All profits from the record and its various offshoots will be turned over to USA (United Support of Artists) for Africa, a nonprofit foundation that will funnel funds through established relief agencies. Columbia is contributing its net proceeds, and the singers showed up for no salary. Ken Kragen, a personal manager whose clients include Kenny Rogers and Lionel Richie, was one of the first people Harry Belafonte called. It was Kragen who suggested making the sort of record that British rockers had released on behalf of Ethiopian relief during the holiday season...
...leak. I can't stand it much longer." Regan holds the press at arm's distance, centralizes paper flow, assigns staff authority meticulously--and thus could spot any big leaker. Benign terror reigns in the back corridors. Information is sorted, compressed, confined. "I'm the small end of the funnel," Regan explains pointedly. The policy struggle around the President has been diminished. Regan is the lone briefer on many issues. He has urged more frequent news conferences for the President, mostly to keep him current and sharp. Regan loves the line, "If we let Regan be Regan, Reagan will...
Egan lost that face and his first real confrontation with pressure, but he has since learned to funnel the tension to improve his swimming...
...would have been useless to an impressionist, whose ambition was to render perceptual reality as faithfully as possible. But the drift of fauvism and especially cubism was toward the conceptual: and here the idea of representing, say, a face as a flat plane with knoblike eyes and a cylindrical funnel of a mouth was infinitely suggestive. Certainly it was convenient for Picasso to rejig the human face in terms of bladelike noses and scarification lines, a I'Africaine. But cubism was not, as has naively been said in the past, "set off" by the "discovery" of tribal...
Even so, the success of Mondale's program depends heavily on a rather wishful scenario: as the tax increases and other measures begin to reduce the deficit, the pressure of federal borrowing on capital markets eases and the independent Federal Reserve Board figures it can funnel more money into those markets without increasing the danger of inflation. That combination pushes down the interest rate on federal borrowings from about 10% now to 7.5% in 1989. Paying lower rates on less borrowing, the Government saves $51 billion in interest costs on the federal debt five years from...