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...first-act curtain came down last week, as Congress overwhelmingly approved final language of the bitterly contested tax bill that passed two weeks ago. Over the next three years, the measure will cut personal jates by a total of 25% and provide a bevy of benefits for oil firms, savings and loan institutions, commodities traders and other businesses with powerful lobbyists. Altogether, the bill will reduce federal revenues by $750 billion by fiscal 1986. Senator Edward Kennedy made a last-ditch fight against some of the $33 billion worth of giveaways to the oil industry but accomplished little more than...
...invested more than $1 billion in the project, and the plant is seen by its backers as central to American nuclear development. The President is a strong supporter of nuclear power, and the Administration has lobbied hard to continue Clinch River's funding. Last week the House voted down, 206 to 186, a last-ditch attempt to cancel 1982 appropriations for the plant. The Senate Energy Committee had earlier authorized funds without debate...
...matter how dazzling, heart transplants and mechanical hearts are last-ditch measures. They will save, at best, a tiny fraction of the lives now claimed by heart disease. Fewer than 50 heart transplants are done each year in the U.S., owing to the difficulty of finding donors, the unsolved problem of tissue rejection and the high cost (averaging...
...would thus be able to stay in place through the election campaign. Most Cabinet members favored this comparatively graceful course, but it was decided to hold off until a small clique of diehard Begin supporters-led by Sharon and Housing Minister David Levy-had time to embark on their last-ditch exercise in vote bartering...
...last week, however, a summer-long effort by the federal and provincial governments to reach accord on constitutional change had collapsed in acrimonious failure. At the end of a six-day summit around a horseshoe table in Ottawa-capped by a last-ditch private bargaining session in Trudeau's drawing room-the Prime Minister and the premiers reported that they had been unable to agree on a single point of Trudeau's agenda...