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Crimson: Is there anything specific that you would back in terms of trying to lessen that problem...
...least one prominent Democrat admits that this line might indeed lessen the large gains in congressional representation that his party had hoped to win. Says Tony Coelho, chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee: "Now there is a psychological uplift to those who are not unemployed or facing bankruptcy. If the psychology of fear is reversed, then people will listen to the Republican message. We will still pick up seats, but not as many." Most estimates, including Coelho's, cluster around a Democratic gain often to 15 seats in the House, not particularly impressive for the opposition party...
...what has become almost a tradition in Western Europe, the bad news was presented to the public at the height of the summer vacation season in order to lessen the immediate outcry of national pain. With millions of his countrymen at the beaches and in the mountains, Italian Prime Minister Giovanni Spadolini proclaimed a stringent austerity package, describing the proposals as being of "historic proportions." They were indeed, but they also contained political dynamite with an unexpectedly short fuse. Only five days after the big economic squeeze was announced, seven Socialist ministers resigned from Spadolini's 28-member Cabinet...
...package of tax hikes and loophole closings is needed to lessen the impact of what is already certain to become another record for the Administration: the nation's largest budget deficit. Reagan's own 1983 budget would have produced a deficit estimated by the Congressional Budget Office at $121 billion. When even leaders of his party rebelled at all that red ink, he supported spending cuts and tax increases that still are expected to leave a deficit of at least $105 billion. Democrats are refusing to support any tax increase at all in an election year. Some...
Healy added that his office will prepare a supplementary budget for council approval when the state figures are disclosed Possibilities for the and increase include funding the vacant position, paying off some of the city's bond debts or initiating an emergency fund to lessen the effect of potential future financial difficulties...