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...positive to say about tax policy. His advisers settled on a strengthened pitch for tax reform. Says Richard Darman, then on the White House staff: "It was a classic offensive issue. We would emphasize fairness, lower rates and simplicity." The White House was careful to avoid specifics, lest it offend voters who might lose tax breaks. Instead, the President announced that he was ordering Donald Regan, then Secretary of the Treasury, to prepare recommendations that would be released after the election. That directive was widely derided as a transparent ploy, but it worked, thanks partly to some unwitting assistance from...
...course the movie manages to offend all our senses with enough ethnic humor to give Jesse Helms a shiver up his spine. We get to see the fat, rich sheik. The incompetent and Uncle Tom-like Black prime minister as well as the Island's yellow belly fighting force make a showing. Oh, and I don't want to forget the two Barrys from Long Island and Miami Beach...
...harried committee, facing a 1988 deadline, hopes to produce a revised hymnal that will offend no interest group among the liberal denomination's 9.2 million members. High on the agenda is eliminating any language that might be deemed sexist--not least because by the end of the century a projected 40% of Methodist clergy will be women. Thus God of Our Fathers is to become God of the Ages, and out go Harry Emerson Fosdick's rousing lines: "Grant us wisdom, Grant us courage,/ That we fail not man nor thee." In some cases, traditional texts have been retained...
...vote was all the more remarkable for the lack of strong overt opposition to the missile deal by Washington's powerful pro-Israeli lobby. Even so, many lawmakers were fearful of supporting a measure that might offend Jewish voters in an election year and wanted to punish the Saudis for what legislators view as unfriendly acts, including muted criticism of the U.S. for its bombing raid on Libya. Said California Democrat Alan Cranston, who led the campaign in the Senate against the missile sale: "We should send the Saudis a signal that our friendship entails certain minimal obligations...
...drew a distinction between trying to push acompany to action by applying the economicleverage of total divestment and not associatingwith some delinquent companies which have policieswhich offend the University.PhotoAdam Ruderman...