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...great Olympic hopes break into the pros gently...
While the modified flat tax is favored by Secretary of the Treasury Donald Regan, the political obstacles are so great that other options may have to be weighed. The Treasury study is also expected to give the President the pros and cons of both a national sales tax and a value-added tax (similar to a sales tax but levied at each stage of a product's development and distribution...
Noting the way cartoonists have lampooned Bush because of his erratic and occasionally quarrelsome performance this year, one top Republican strategist declared, "Bush is in danger of becoming a national joke." While that seems too harsh, it is clear that Bush's presidential stock has dropped. Some G.O.P. pros partly blame his staff...
...increasingly esoteric technical specifications. IBM alone sells seven basic variations on its bestselling model, ranging from the low-cost PCjr to the top-of-the-line IBM PC AT. To distinguish between these machines, consumers have to measure memory in kilobytes and disc storage in megabytes. To understand the pros and cons of IBM-compatible computers built by AT&T, Compaq or Hewlett-Packard, they must learn to identify silicon chips by name and measure their speeds in millions of cycles per second...
Walsh says that before the Mid-Cambridge neighbors deliberated over the connector proposal, Museum representatives met regularly with community members to discuss the plans, and sent a mailing to all Mid-Cambridge residents, detailing the design and listing its pros and cons. The mailing cost about...