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...striking air-traffic controllers until the strike had actually begun. Reagan has even been known to overrule a unanimous troika opinion on issues about which he feels deeply. The three all thought last summer that the Administration should seek sizable increases in some taxes?sales and business taxes, perhaps???to hold down future deficits. Reagan's response, as one aide sums it up: "No way. He wouldn't even consider it." This President simply hates taxes, period...
Brezhnev's legacy: stability, security and?perhaps???stagnation...
...ways, the recession brought a kind of enforced enlightenment: husbands badly needed their wives'?or daughters'?paychecks to help support the family. Many men may still ask their oafish versions of Freud's infuriating question, "What does woman want?" But a surprising number of them have?guiltily perhaps???acknowledged the seriousness of women's complaints. While some advances have come because of women's push for equality or from affirmative-action programs, others have also resulted from a dawning recognition of the justice of women's demands for equal rights...
Even so, if Communist negotiators are true to form, the weeks and months to come will bring well-rehearsed tantrums and tirades, dramatic walkouts and magnanimous walkins, endless impasses and?perhaps???sudden breakthroughs. The upshot could be a hopeless deadlock that would almost surely lead to a wider, more savage war. Or it could be a gradual phase-down in the fighting and, ultimately, peace...
Observing such men, Frank A. Munsey, who was something of a chain welder himself, predicted in 1903 that "it will not be many years?five or ten perhaps???before the publishing business of this country will be done by a few concerns." Munsey's timing was off and his prophecy far too sweeping. But for a whole catalogue of reasons, U.S. newspapers have found it increasingly expedient to cut down competition for the sake of survival...