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...Putting the Presidency Back to Work" ((NATION, Nov. 23)), you say the "Iran-contra mess, the stock-market crash and the inability to pick a Supreme Court nominee capable of being confirmed by the Senate have threatened to add Ronald Reagan to the list of 20th century presidential failures." Are you serious? Here is a President who has been able to bring about a domestic- policy revolution: the top tax rate is down from 70% to 28%, inflation has been licked, and the economy has galloped ahead at a record pace for 59 months...
...shaky side of the balance sheet for today's banks is not necessarily deposits but loans. The U.S. banking industry is saddled with $59 billion worth of sour loans made to a lengthening list of troubled borrowers: developing countries, farmers, takeover artists, real estate developers, oil drillers and spendthrift consumers. While most U.S. banks can handle bad debts during good times, a recession would turn a quiet problem into a grinding one. Many more borrowers could go over the brink, along with their banks. The resulting rash of federal bailouts could strain the Government's deposit- insurance system and even...
...list of his materials, apart from paint, would include paper, staples, canvas, rough foil formed by throwing a bucket of molten lead on the canvas and letting it cool there, sand, gold leaf, copper wire, woodcuts and lumps of busted ceramic. It is highly unlikely that more than a few will survive for 50 or even 25 years. Kiefer carries a disregard for the permanence of his materials to such an extreme that the lead will not stay in place and the straw on some canvases is already rotting, though this does not seem to discourage collectors...
...watered down to become "an essential element of my arms-control policy." Although such an amendment would not require that the treaty be renegotiated, it would make it difficult for Reagan to put the pact into effect: the Administration went on record a week before the summit with a list of allegations about how Moscow has violated the 1972 Antiballistic Missile Treaty...
...Devils are led by pre-season All-America Danny Ferry. The 6-ft., 10-in. junior power forward, whose brother Bob is third on Harvard's all-time scoring list, has emerged as one of the finest players in college ball. Ferry averaged 14 points and 7.8 rebounds per game last year...