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Qaboos decided not to stop the maneuvers, but ever since there has been a tight lid of secrecy on the operation, and Saudi Arabia has persuaded the Omanis to put off the exercise until later in the year, partly in order to give the dust of the Lebanon crisis more time to settle...
...somewhere in the future. In May, when the board last met, members thought that the Reagan Administration's July 1 income tax cut would spur consumer spending and push growth to a 3.3% annual rate during the third quarter. In fact, scared consumers have been keeping a tight lid on spending, raising doubts about whether the economy will show any growth next month when the Commerce Department releases its preliminary third-quarter figures for the gross national product...
...Everyone I talk to says it [the rent board] is a biased board. The thing is I suppose it does have to do with what you think it's supposed to do." According to Polvere, the rent board" by its nature is a status quo agency it keeps the lid on rents" and trys to prevent the depletion of the housing stock, he says. "It's essentially a conservative--not in the political sense--agency...
...benefited equally from a 10% rate cut. But both men were corrected by Treasury Secretary Donald Regan, who admitted that a 10% cut in the tax rates benefits those in the higher tax brackets more than those in low ones. The most sensitive issue involved delaying or putting a lid on the cost of living allowances (COLA) under various federal retirement programs, most notably Social Security. Both Reagan and O'Neill knew that the COLA issue was a key to any major budget savings, but neither wanted to be the first to raise it in an election year. During...
...battle for the succession entered a new, uncharacteristically visible phase last month with the death of Party Ideologue Mikhail Suslov, whose influence in the Kremlin had been second only to Brezhnev's. Says an experienced diplomat in Moscow: "While Suslov was alive, he kept the lid on pretty strongly." Alexei Shibaev, 67, a protégé of both Suslov and Brezhnev, lost his job as head of the Central Council of Trade Unions last week. According to rumors, as many as 4,000 Suslov-backed officials may have been fired since his death. Chernenko has moved aggressively...