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Critics of Reaganomics maintain that low-income Americans are now carrying a heavier tax load than they were in the 1970s. One reason: tax breaks that are of greatest value to the poor, including the standard deduction, personal exemptions and the earned income tax credit, have not been increased to keep pace with inflation. In addition, Social Security payroll taxes, which weigh most heavily on the working poor, have been rising steadily, from 6.13% of wages in 1980 to 6.7% this year. By 1985 the Social Security rate will...
Peace and quiet, Lebanese-style, descended on the shattered remnants of Beirut last week. On most days, only occasional bursts of machine-gun fire flew across the "green line" separating the Christian eastern part of the city from the predominantly Muslim west. Late in the week, heavier machine-gun and rocket duels erupted between Christian and Muslim militiamen, killing two people and wounding at least 27 others. But in the early stages of the uneasy Pax Syriana imposed two weeks ago by Syrian President Hafez Assad, the main participants in the Lebanese tragedy were trying to shift most of their...
...anger and then with tears. He turns to his wife for solace, moaning "Maybe Aggy's right. Maybe I am a failure. "Francine sharply gives sarcastic voice to Innaurato's view of the clash of values: "You're right. You're a wop in a WASP. society. You're heavier than the skinny society. You're getting worse and worse and what a failure. Look at what you got as a wife... If you were a normal 30-years old you'd go on a diet, get a divorce and go to law school...
Reagan will be taking much heavier flak from Congress, which is also preoccupied by the campaign. On foreign policy, the President may be hard pressed to head off a Senate Foreign Relations Committee resolution that would call for removal of the Marines from Lebanon as early as Feb. 25. The legislators are also certain to reduce the President's military-spending requests...
...significance of Chow's victory, however, could be far heavier than his pancakes. At stake in the case, say libel experts, is the right of critics to express their own judgments. Reviews, which are by nature subjective opinions, have generally been exempt from the standards of libel applied to news stories. But the distinction in libel cases between reporting and criticism is now being called into question...