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Zussman said he does not know if rent control ordinances still govern units held by non-occupant investors...
Summoning a team and then synthesizing its advice is a favorite Carter assault on a problem, and it exemplifies an inclination to manage rather than to govern. He also has a tendency to mistake the delineation of solutions to a problem for the solution itself. That happened when he announced his first energy program in early 1977. Carter called it the "moral equivalent of war," and he was right, but then he stepped away. Having announced a necessary program, he seemed to believe it would move along automatically. He failed to recognize the importance of pushing and negotiating with Congress...
...amounts of time and money. For Thoreau's point, never stated outright but implied in both Walden and the essay on Civil Disobedience, is that control is undesirable; instead that happy co-existence of man and nature is both the only hope and the best hope of man. "That government is best which governs least," Thoreau said--and by extension on to the banks of the little lake that served as his home for a year, that man is best which governs least, and attempts to govern least...
...York Times Columnist James Reston called Carter's campaign "vicious and personal," and added that "even if he wins, it will be difficult for him to regain the support he needs to govern." Said an editorial in the Washington Post: "Jimmy Carter is campaigning like a politician gone haywire . . . Where is the President?" Commented the Boston Globe: "The President seems bent on discarding his last ace, his reputation as a decent and compassionate...
...bracing for a spring election that could reduce his standing with the voters. In Britain, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher faced sharp criticism for her monetarist program. But Schmidt, 61, overseer of the Continent's healthiest major economy (5.1% inflation and 3.5% unemployment) had a new mandate to govern for another four years, probably without serious challenge...