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Though it controls the nation's purse strings, Congress has long been outmatched by the Executive Branch in brainpower for evaluating federal spending proposals. Only a few Senators and Representatives have acquired much proficiency in economics, and the Administration can overwhelm them with spending and revenue estimates prepared by the Office of Management and Budget and the Council of Economic Advisers-in all, an apparatus of some 700 people. This year the imbalance has been lessened by the new Congressional Budget Office and its articulate, politically liberal director, Economist Alice Mitchell Rivlin...
Better Class. Although the new rules create new dilemmas for candidates, they also put them all on a more even footing. No one can overwhelm the field financially, and none need feel beholden to affluent interests. "It's a helluva lot better psychologically," explains Jackson's finance coordinator, Richard Kline. Donors know they are not going to be "hit for a fortune," he adds, and "there isn't all the tension. Also, you don't have to find some donor's kid a summer job in Washington. We're dealing with a much better...
...however, that the free traders will continue to win. At the end of May, the 24-member Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development will meet in Paris to renew a free-trade pledge, but Britain's vote, at least, is in doubt. The grim facts of recession can overwhelm the best of intentions, as Australia has already proved. After Prime Minister Gough Whitlam's Labor government took office in 1972, it fulfilled an election pledge for tariff reform by slashing levies 25% across the board. As late as last December, Whitlam was telling Europeans that "a retreat into...
...from their windshields. Ward heelers elsewhere rounded up the elderly, the infirm and even the West Madison Street derelicts and took them to the voting booths. In these and other ways, Chicago's 25,000 or so patronage workers-and many of their relatives-helped Richard J. Daley overwhelm three Democratic opponents last week and assure himself of winning an unprecedented sixth term in the general election on April...
...borders and the name of the subject and a date are written, in script underneath. For a book-created by a photographer, the pictures in Elsa's Housebook are surprisingly small and often less revealing of Dorfman and her subjects than the prose that surrounds and often threatens to overwhelm them. Nearly all of the pictures were taken within the last two years in the kitchen or livingroom of Dorfman's modest duplex near Mather House, where she is a photography tutor...