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...members of the TIME board agreed that carving $50 billion out of Government spending will be difficult. Almost half of the projected 1982 budget, or some $340 billion, goes to so-called entitlement programs like Social Security and the railroad retirement fund, which make payments to individuals that are mandated by law. Another $260 billion is slated for national defense and interest on the federal debt. Reagan has pledged to increase defense spending, and reportedly will propose cuts of no more than $20 billion in the popular entitlement benefits. This means that the President will have to trim about...
OPEC was founded, modeled on the Texas Railroad Commission and shaped by oilmen who were educated...
There are no signs of a police presence anywhere near the building. It is the occupying union men who maintain tight security. Five burly railroad workers in their uniforms stand guard at the entrance. The inner door is chained and padlocked. Although the occupiers claim to have about 400 people inside, a first-hand head count put that number at closer to 100. In a solemn mood, the peasants and factory workers sit around chatting idly, reading newspapers, playing cards or chess. At night bedrolls and mattresses are laid out side by side on the floor...
...victor's formidable mother, Miss Lillian, was freely available at the old railroad depot, dispensing her startling wit and candor. His brother Billy was cheerfully posing for snapshots at the gas pump, permanent beer can ominously poised. Even the President-elect and his wife were visible, making occasional forays to greet childhood friends or to eat at the nearest restaurants-every forkful watched for significance by a merciless post-Watergate press corps. A sizable slice of the citizenry willingly guided the influx of strangers round the sites-Jimmy's birthplace, his country home, his father's simple...
Brady read off eight names with rather less emotion than a railroad conductor calling out station stops, as a line of men, all in blue or gray suits, stepped before the TV cameras. For half an hour, they took turns answering questions or, more accurately, politely not answering them, explaining that they would have to become more familiar with their new jobs before they could say anything specific about their own views or the new Administration's policies. Said Secretary of Commerce-designate Malcolm Baldrige, in the only semblance of lively comment: "I haven't even found...