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...will surely relish the moment, it should also be seized for grander purposes, for awareness may just be dawning in the Age of Communication that silence is indeed often golden. President-elect Ronald Reagan has so far, often to the chagrin of the press, shown an admirable reluctance to grab all of the many chances he gets to sound off on just about anything. Given the possible alternatives, Yoko Ono's fiat that John Lennon's passing be marked with ten minutes of silence around the world was inspired. In truth, the day of the telecast experiment would...
...visible and obvious enemies--Jimmy Carter, George McGovern, Birch Bayh, and Frank Church, among others--its leaders believe the cause will succeed on its own merits. Viguerie, who compares the 1980 election to that of 1932, says the conservative victory will be confirmed in four years, after more Republicans grab Hill spots, and perhaps control of the House of Representatives...
...gold and oil, the Soviets have paid off $2.5 billion in private bank loans. Thus far, however, they have shown no inclination to bail out the Poles. A Polish default on foreign loans might give Moscow an excuse to tighten its hold on the economy or, at worst, grab direct power in Warsaw. don't go bankrupt," as Citicorp Chairman Walter Wriston once said. But they can delay or, as in the case of Iran, freeze payment on foreign debts, even though such moves endanger the profitability and, eventually, the stability of financial institutions. With debts of all borrowing...
...when Jimmy Carter's out of a job, this nation is on the way to recovery. Like any president-elect, Ronald Reagan carries the baggage of pregnant campaign promises to office this January. Unlike others before him, however, "Ronnie" betrays a suspicious amount of faith in his grab-bag of rhetoric about economics--tax cuts, defederalization, and Laffer Curve explosions. Less government is the promiscuous rabbit he promises to produce from his cowboy hat to stimulate business. Let the private sector make us great again televisions and the late show for everyone...
...done very well." Looking further for an explanation of just what went wrong, Edward Coyle, Anderson's former deputy campaign manager, says, "There was no burning issue that people were outraged about, no issues on which he was right and Reagan and Carter were wrong that he could grab hold...