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...Stockmanisms broke through the murky atmosphere of partisan political rhetoric like rays of sunshine. The clarity of his words and position gave hope to citizens who were tired of hearing horror stories about the deficit while watching its continued rise. Now that the Whiz Kid is leaving, the weather outlook is gloomy, and the chances for reducing the deficit seem bleak. Betty Driscoll Monkton...
...young, the wealthy and the Republican tended to be the most sanguine about the state of the nation, a majority of all demographic groups shared the upbeat mood. Even 53% of those making less than $ 10,000 agreed that things are going very or fairly well. The sunny outlook seems to reflect the current health of the economy: the lowest level of optimism during Reagan's term, 35%, came at the end of the last recession, in December...
...your piece on the school shooting in Red Lake, "The Devil in Red Lake." The ultimate responsibility obviously lies with the young man who fired the guns, Jeff Weise. But because he was a boy growing up poor and from a shattered family, with a confused and bitter outlook on his racial heritage and no one to counter the myths of Nazism and racial hate groups, we have to admit that in some way society failed him, and nine other people paid the price. Because TIME brought up the devil, as if a supernatural being were to blame, the reader...
...return to substantial GNP gains will be needed if the White House's ambitious economic forecasts are to prove correct. The Administration last week trimmed its outlook for 1985 growth from 4% to 3.9%. That goal remains well above the 3.5% level that many private economists have been predicting, and may even be out of reach. Concedes Commerce Secretary Malcolm Baldrige: "If this estimate we have now isn't changed, we would need to average 4.9% growth for the next three quarters. That would be difficult to achieve...
...cancer. For the first time in its history, the U.S. faced the prospect of a sitting President who, no matter how dramatic his recovery, would be followed by the shadow of a major disease for the rest of his presidency. If the President's personal prognosis seemed promising, the outlook for his presidency was somewhat more difficult to predict...