Word: kemp
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Quarterbacks are always at peril, but they seem to be falling at an accelerated rate. The Bears' Jim McMahon, the Raiders' Marc Wilson and the Colts' Gary Hogeboom all have injured shoulders. A master at developing young quarterbacks, 49ers Coach Bill Walsh is left with Jack Kemp's son Jeff, 27, a substitute for five seasons with the Los Angeles Rams, and Journeyman Mike Moroski. Neither can be expected to match the two-time MVP of the Super Bowl. By a complicated system the N.F.L. employs for measuring quarterbacks, Miami's Dan Marino has just dislodged Montana as the highest...
...process does work that way. Thus it was with tax reform, a political miracle that was brought to the verge of fruition by an amazingly varied group of conservatives and liberals, Republicans and Democrats. Some, like New Jersey Democratic Senator Bill Bradley and New York Republican Congressman Jack Kemp, were longtime crusaders. Others, like Ronald Reagan, who supported a 1981 tax bill that was laden with special breaks, were late converts. But eventually, though the public at times seemed skeptical, most politicians came either to favor the idea or to fear the consequences of opposing...
...star for the New York Knicks he had been a "depreciable asset" to the team's owners, went shopping for a House partner interested in reform. In the spring of 1982 he and Richard Gephardt of Missouri proposed a code with low rates and few deductions. New York Congressman Kemp, a prime architect of the 1981 tax cuts, later teamed up with Wisconsin Senator Robert Kasten to write a Republican bill that embodied many of the same principles. But none of these legislators had the clout to get action. That could be done only by the President, and Reagan...
Inevitably, with 10,000 candidates on the ballot, many more running as write-ins, and no firm indication of which belonged in whose camp, the presidential contenders as well as the voters grew confused. In some cases Bush and Kemp mailings touted the same candidates. For that matter, many of the delegates have not made up their own minds even unofficially. Says Detroit Attorney Gerald Rosen: "I've talked with so many delegates who have said, 'I'm for Robertson and Kemp' or 'I'm for Bush and Dole...
...results the Vice President had to send in top operatives and spend $700,000. Robertson, who claims to have spent only $65,000, was the only contender given an unfavorable rating in the exit polls; but the Wall Street Journal/NBC News tally gave him about as many delegates as Kemp, around 10%. Kemp spent $250,000 trying to establish himself as the prime challenger to Bush and signally failed to do so. Dole, by sitting out Michigan and concentrating on showing his mastery as Senate majority leader, has begun to emerge as Bush's most formidable opponent...