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...across-the-board cuts required by Gramm-Rudman. Congress, however, has until mid-December to incorporate the new deal into law before the full weight of the Gramm-Rudman ax falls. Thus congressional leaders will be forced to iron out swiftly the details of the summit compromise and to muster the votes for the requisite tax hikes and spending reductions...
...Cadets, besides scoring a power-play goal late in the third period--the first extra-man tally the Crimson has surrendered this season--couldn't muster enough artillery against seasoned freshman goalie Michael Francis...
Ginsburg will need all the equanimity he can muster as he prepares for what could be yet another explosive Supreme Court confirmation fight. Last week Ronald Reagan nominated the 41-year-old jurist as an Associate Justice of the court. Ginsburg, like Reagan's first choice, the defeated Robert Bork, is a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. Last month, as one Senator after another denounced Bork's ideological views, the President promised that his next nominee would be just as objectionable to liberals as Bork had been. Reagan may have made good...
Until yesterday, political gurus were yawning about Tuesday's general election. Frank Doyle, Flynn's campaign manager, could muster only this response, "How can you say it has been boring, with eight public media forums and twenty neighborhood forums...
...took Reagan four days after last Monday's historic collapse on Wall Street to speak out in public on the steps he would take to deal with the crisis. While investors and politicians verged on panic and waited to hear from him, Reagan was only able to muster a Hoover-like declaration that the "underlying economy remains sound...