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...Kennedy's staff is regarded in the Senate as first rate. He has about 100 people working for him, which makes his staff about the same size as those of other committee chairmen. Generally in their 20s and 30s, his aides are exceedingly loyal and enthusiastic, and heartily disliked by colleagues on Capitol Hill for always putting Kennedy's interests first. Unlike most Senate staffs, Kennedy has no office manager. The senior men report directly to Kennedy. The most important aide is ten-year veteran Carey Parker, 44, Kennedy's balding, warmly humorous chief legislative assistant. The other top aides...
Whatever happens in the immediate future, Begin has plenty of trouble on his hands. His citizenry is dispirited, his country's inflation rate is running at about 100%, and the popularity of the opposition Labor Party is once more on the rise. The lesson of Elon Moreh is that the aspirations of a few thousand nationalist fanatics do not necessarily coincide with the needs of the Israeli people. But it is a lesson that Menachem Begin does not appear ready or willing to accept...
...rich people, corporations and institutions looking to park their idle cash. This discrimination has been ended by the swelling number of money funds that have been formed by mutual fund companies and brokerage firms to pool small investors' assets. Since the returns rise along with surging interest rates-and the highest bank prime lending rate rose to 15¼% last week-money market funds are booming. About 75 such funds now handle nearly $40 billion in assets, way up from $11 billion in January and only $4 billion early last year. William Donoghue, publisher of Donoghue's Money...
...savings is badly hurting the thrift institutions. They face a tremendous competitive disadvantage and a sharp outflow of funds because the Federal Reserve's Regulation Q prohibits them from paying more than 5½% on passbook savings. A bill before the Senate would slowly phase out the interest rate ceilings by 1990. Meanwhile, says Robert Garver, president of Boston's Charlestown Savings Bank: "The money market funds are killing...
Those levies pull the yield down well below the inflation rate. Sums up Donoghue...