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...Reagan will participate in a specially produced segment from the White House." They will join a list of headliners that includes Dianne Carroll, Barbara Mandrell, Ben Vereen, former "Duke of Hazzard" John Schnieder, and Reaganite Dinah Shore. None of the Democratic hopefuls for 1984 will get equal time to rebut the President's Christmas greeting
...interest and dividends earned by individuals who have savings accounts or own stocks. This withholding would be applied against taxes owed during the year. Pushed hard by Republicans Robert Dole, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, and Majority Leader Howard Baker as a way to rebut critics who claim that Reagan's tax and spending cuts unfairly hurt the poor, the proposal was strongly opposed by banks and brokerage firms. They complained, quite validly, that it would cost them heavily in additional paperwork...
...documentary two weeks ago examining the hardships of the poor and disabled under the Reagan Administration drew a harsh 40-minute denunciation from the White House's communications director. The Administration formally requested that CBS grant the White House time to rebut the inaccurate charges it said the network made in the show, which spotlighted the plight of several families hurt by the Administration's cuts in social spending. CBS, arguing that its depiction was accurate, refused the request. The Administration's complaint remains lodged before the Federal Communications Commission, whose controversial "fairness doctrine" could require the network to give...
...harm either came. Support for Israel's quest for peaceful existence without the PLO and gay students quest for normal lives without governments that discourage their lifestyles, are, in my view, correct. But the popularity of one view is no reason to silence competing ideas--only to seek to rebut them...
...Court decisions would stray from Ely's "representation-reinforcing" approach, most notably the decisions finding new personal rights, like that to privacy. But since most of the key decisions likely to face the Court soon deal with alleged personal rights (like the abortion decision nine years ago), the liberals rebut an Ely esque Court could have a conservative impact, indeed...