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...annual rate in March, will be no easy task for Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan. To cool the economy, he may have to nudge interest rates upward. But doing so could drop a political bombshell on the presidential campaign of Vice President George Bush. For a loyal Republican like Greenspan, it is a dilemma with the sharpest of horns...
...thing, it inaugurated the company's ambitious American Music Festival, three weeks of patriotic programming involving 21 new ballets, five specially commissioned scores, with a total of 41 U.S. composers featured. For another, the evening had a real family feeling that bound the company and its intensely loyal following. Both Suzanne Farrell and Patricia McBride, the troupe's senior ballerinas, appeared in special numbers, and both danced with a radiance and glamour that brought the audience to its feet...
...leisurely review of his list of vice-presidential prospects, which included such usual suspects as Governors George Deukmejian and Tom Kean. Then Bush surprised his advisers with an unexpected addition to the roster: Wyoming Senator Alan Simpson. The homespun Simpson is well liked by his peers and above all loyal, an attribute that Bush has stated is his most important criterion...
...reason Jackson has been able to survive scrutiny--a thought columnists seem loathe to acknowledge--is that he, unlike virtually any other Democrat now running, has a loyal and well-defined constituency. Historian Alan Brinkley noted in The New York Times at the time of the Hart scandal that his campaign was mortally wounded by the Donna Rice affair precisely because he lacked a constituency. Hart was trading on his front-runner status and nothing more. The same could be said of Joe Biden. For a candidate without a natural constituency, any damaging revelation can bring a campaign...
...Either way it hurts," said one party elder last week, summing up the "Jackson problem" confronting the Democrats. "Down one path we have to turn our backs on everything this party has purported to stand for--and on our most loyal voting bloc. Down the other, we face certain disaster in the fall...