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...week, U.S. officials made known their concern over Italy's sale to Iraq of equipment that might be used in the development of an atomic bomb. Again, something seemed amiss. It turned out that the U.S. had been aware of the sale since 1978, and that the item, a lead-shielded cubicle known as a "hot cell," is standard equipment in most nuclear laboratories. Officials in Rome speculated that word about American displeasure with the deal had been leaked at this time because Italian support for the tough U.S. position on the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan has been less...
...debt, in the opinion of many economists, will have only a marginal impact on inflation. The wage-price guidelines have been very ineffective, and there is little reason to think their impact will increase. And the Administration's fee on imported oil will immediately force up further the item that is already rising faster than anything else in the consumer price index. Gasoline prices went up 60% between early 1979 and early 1980 (see chart...
Gere isn't beautiful all the time, however, His character is a dip, moreover--slow, thoughtless, imbecilic, lacking personality and the ability to muster emotion. Schrader cast Poor Richard as a giant, swaggering, vending-machine penis, the only item Frederick's of Hollywood doesn't carry, a French tickler with batteries. Self-indulgent, he takes more time choosing an outfit than he does kissing Lauren Hutton to a silly-faced plateau of pleasure. Rarely can he park his 450 SEL without it lurching forward as he jumps out. He picks up women in foreign languages, yet he speaks French like...
...final session over turkey and ham sandwiches at the Laurel Lodge at Camp David the Saturday before Christmas, Carter, Budget Chief James McIntyre and several aides reviewed a three-page mimeographed.sheet of 39 unresolved programs. After a three-hour discussion, the President firmly drew a line under the ninth item, a supplemental foreign aid proposal. The 30 programs below the line, including additional spending on public service employment jobs and a new plan to improve roads heavily used for transporting coal, were eliminated...
...main hurdle to reducing federal spending has become the nature of the budget itself. Most federal spending is now off limits to even the sharpest accountant's pencils. So-called uncontrollable budget items, such as Social Security, Medicare and payment of interest on the national debt, gobble up an increasing share of federal money. Many of these are entitlement programs for which Congress has passed laws establishing the level of benefits that each person receives. Indexing social programs so that recipients will not feel the pinch of inflation has made them still more expensive. In a maddening vicious circle...