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...lightly traveled, like a drag strip. Next spring, things should begin to change for the citizens along Appleton Street. For one city block on the four-block-long street, Appleton will be the site of a ground-level experiment that could presage a new era in unscrambling the agonizing mesh of big-city residential traffic...
...planned defense spending. Texas Republican John Tower, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, fumed that the Pentagon will have "less in the way of defense capability than even Jimmy Carter projected." That was clearly not true, but other legislators voiced valid worries about how the defense cutback would mesh with Reagan's foreign policy. Said Republican Senator William Cohen of Maine: "You can't tell the Soviets you will outspend them in an arms race if they won't negotiate, then propose defense reductions and still believe Moscow will sit down to bargain anyway...
...interests of these middle-class workers mesh nicely with the principles and promises of Reagan's supply-side philosophy. Not only would his across-the-board reductions in personal income taxes be popular among workers earning $20,000 annually, but the projected increase in industrial output resulting from savings increases, corporate tax breaks, and defense expenditures seem to promise higher employment in the capital-intensive, high-wage industrial sector...
There is something ludicrous about seeing Bo Derek in the deep, dark jungles of 19th century Western Africa, for she is such a product of late 20th century America. Her giggly California high-school pom-pom girl accent does not mesh with the romantic, metaphorical lines she is called upon to recite. When her line reads: "Yes, father, many things in life are like that," her voice says "gimme a large order of onion rings and a vanilla shake." She belongs in an Orange Crush television commercial. She belongs on a beach in Venice. California, or in a dune buggy...
...Chief of Staff. He argues plausibly that Congress would respond more favorably to an elected official in that position. But should the Chief of Staff be a man who is almost always chosen to balance a party's ticket? A Chief of Staff must be able to mesh with the idiosyncrasies of President and staff...