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...GIRL'S GUIDE TO BUYING DIAMONDS: How to Choose, Evaluate, and Buy the Diamond You Want By Randi Molofsky Quarry Books Everything shoppers should know?including the old cut, color, carat and clarity issues???is hit upon in this easy-to-read manual about a girl's best friend...
...secondary matters the President will sometimes accept the consensus even if it goes against his grain. A prime example is the agenda of social issues???particularly banning abortion and compulsory busing and reinstituting prayer in public schools?that are all-important to his New Right followers. Reagan believes in that agenda too, and stressed it as a candidate. But he accepted the judgment of his legislative staff that pushing hard for such measures would complicate the passage of his economic program, which to Reagan has a higher priority. The most the President would do was to give North Carolina Senator...
...stress on bread-and-butter issues???inflation, taxes and spending?has blurred party distinctions, sometimes beyond the point of recognition. Democrats are sounding like Republicans, or even more so. Specifically, Democrats have been quick to sense, and act on, the popular support for some traditional Republican arguments. "It's beginning to look like everybody is in the same party," says...
VOTERS did not just go to the polls to choose among candidates; they also tackled a thorny and controversial spate of referendums and state constitutional amendments. These issues???the fine print on the ballot?have an un-happy tradition of being so complicatedly framed as to leave even the most dutiful voter often confused. In Washington State, for example, voters were faced with an all time record of 24 of these measures. Yet the sentiment on these local issues often provides a mirror of what matters to Americans. That seemed especially true this year in the approval of a wide...
...Nixon Administration; the argument went on over the rights of Government to keep some of its activities secret in the national interest, and of the press to keep a democratic society informed of what its officials have done. Reacting with unusual speed because of the gravity of the issues???and apparently also because the Justices did not find them overly complex?the Supreme Court held a rare Saturday hearing and a decision was imminent (see following story...