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...erratic parliament finally provided a public flash of decisive action that illuminated the long hostage tunnel. Now members of the Council of Guardians settled into their front-row, red leather seats to observe the historic four-hour debate. Ostensibly at issue was the outside arbitration bill, but the real quarrel was over whether to resolve finally the hostage problem...
...expected a quarrel over teachers' salaries would be an issue that would provoke Cabinet ministers to threaten to quit if they did not get their way. But that is precisely what happened...
...enter supply-side economics, the quasi-official theory of the Reagan Administration, with a flourish of trumpets and a roll of drums. It is far from a unified school of doctrine; supply-siders quarrel about who is preaching the true gospel and who is espousing a heretical variant. But they agree on a central line of argument that goes like this...
...extra 2%, on top of the 11.7% increase already moving toward enactment. Tower also advocated an increase in military outlays of 10% a year after 1981, adjusted for inflation, just about double what Carter had planned. Reagan may accept that goal, but his economic advisers are likely to quarrel with Tower's idea that beefing up U.S. military power should have priority over balancing the budget...
With the aid of Henry Purcell's rich-textured Fairy Queen score, Epstein underscores the conflicts in Shakespeare's text. His lovers are violent hotbloods; his fairies are insect-like nature sprites, inhuman and unsettling; his "rude mechanicals" quarrel with earnestness and acrobatic precision in their stage business. The curtain rises at the Wilbur to reveal a Renaissance tapestry of equestrian combat, fair enough warning of the production's themes, and when Theseus (Harry Murphy) and Hippolyta (Karen MacDonald) have it out in a mock combat during the overture, the audience gets the message...