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...revenues if euphemisms like "definitional changes" and "user fees" could be substituted for the word tax. Then, in a yin-yang reminiscent of the early 1980s, when he helped craft Reagan's acceptance of revenue enhancements, Darman backed off, invoking the "duck test." No matter what a revenue raiser is called, he told Congress, if it looks like a tax and sounds like a tax, and people perceive it to be a tax, it is a tax -- and thus violates the President's pledge. Unless, he concluded cryptically, there are special circumstances...
...give him a $120 million tax abatement (he did). It did not hurt that Fred Trump was a regular contributor to the Brooklyn Democratic machine, or that Governor Hugh Carey and Mayor Abe Beame both happened to be Brooklyn Democrats, or that Trump put Carey's chief fund raiser on his payroll. Young Trump also had to find an architect to build a reflecting glass sheath over the decaying hotel (and he did: Der Scutt of Gruzen & Partners) and to find somebody who knew how to run a hotel (and he did: Hyatt...
...scratching can stop when the program airs this Saturday, a video curtain raiser to the full show between our covers, which will be in your hands a few days afterward...
...Robert Mosbacher, 61, a cautious Texas oilman and longtime Bush friend and political fund raiser, was tapped as Secretary of Commerce...
...necessary myth that the artistic director is a one-man band. But of course he has help, and Private View explains clearly how this bulky performing machine keeps going. Fund raiser Larry Lynn tracks Kimberly-Clark for $2,500 worth of free Kleenex. It is ballet mistress Elena Tchernichova who actually produces the"Baryshnikov ballerina." Fraser recognizes and describes the importance of Charles France, Baryshnikov's assistant, to his boss. A brilliant, obsessive fellow, France virtually handed his head, stuffed with dance scholarship and a phenomenal performance memory, to Baryshnikov on a plate. Often his erudition was crucial; a Soviet...