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...transfer of Clark that prompted it. In the first few hours after that move, even the most savvy officials could not believe their ears. A senior White House staff member who informed colleagues about the change just before Reagan publicly announced it encountered such incredulity that he had to insist, "I'm not joking, it's the truth." Legislative Aide Kenneth Duberstein, phoning Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker with the news, argued for three minutes before he could convince Baker that it was not an elaborate...
...argument exists that the government, let alone private insurance companies, cannot possibly afford to help all the patients who need assistance. And few would insist that Medicaid and Medicare cover experimental operations; the possible costs appear unlimited. In an ideal world, funds might exist to combat all illnesses even on an experimental basis. Only in the real world, though, do children contract terminal diseases which they can't even pronounce...
Economists are divided over the future course of the U.S. currency. Most insist that the dollar is unlikely to fall much any time soon. Data Resources' Eckstein expects the dollar to drop at an annual rate of 3% to 4% over the next several years. "Those are small changes," he says. But a few economists predict that the U.S. currency could fall just as rapidly as it has risen. Stephen Maris, former chief economic adviser to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris, warns that when the dollar does drop, it may come crashing down. He believes...
Teachers want them. Parents insist on them. Business requires them. And children are drawn to them like electrons to a cathode-ray tube. Of all the remedies prescribed for the ailing schools, none has generated more excitement than the call for large numbers of desktop computers. This fall 86% of all high schools, 77% of all junior highs and 61% of all grade schools have at least one machine, according to Market Data Retrieval Inc., a Connecticut research firm. But the rush to hardware looks very much like a nationwide case of putting the CRT before the horse...
Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III, last week called the new pamphlet "a powerful, literate document." He said, "It breaks new ground in that it talks about the legal definition of rape, and it tries to encourage the survivor to insist as dignity...