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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...measure of how well-loved Globe Santa is in Boston in that over the years, according to The Globe, the average contribution has been less than $5. And from new until sometime in January. The Globe will be dutifully running out in agate sized type a list of all the people helping pay for toys for poor kids, contributors as varied as "Westwood Lions Club," "A repeating sinner,". "From the workers in the ECG lab at Mass. General Hospital." "To my rabbit, Stompper," and "From the purse I found and never returned...
...mostly by keeping silent. At one meeting last week Stockman suggested a cut in federal aid to public libraries. A senior White House aide questioned whether Washington should be subsidizing libraries at all. Reagan indicated by silence that he shared the doubt, and library assistance was added to the list of programs facing total elimination...
Even as the assault began on tax reform, scores of other special interests mobilized to sink the wish list of spending cuts floated by Budget Director David Stockman. Rarely if ever have so many of Washington's more than 10,000 lobbyists been aroused at the same time. Indeed, the Administration's sweeping proposals may have touched off the ultimate lobbying war, one that will force Congressmen to choose between uplifting notions like "fairness" and "simplicity," and down-to-earth concerns like PAC money and political survival...
Reagan's Star Wars plan to provide a space-based defense against intercontinental ballistic missiles seemed to be emerging as one of the most contentious issues in both capitals. Chernenko mentioned "nonmilitarization of outer space" first in his list of topics to be negotiated, followed by a "reduction of strategic nuclear arms and medium-range nuclear weapons." (He invited Industrialist Armand Hammer, 86, a longtime friend of Soviet leaders, to Moscow as an unofficial pre-Geneva go-between, and Hammer readily accepted...
Published in 1982, "Megatrends" spent 60 weeks on The New York Times bestseller list...