Word: recession
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...aggressiveness on the part of the University's foes, may soon combine to subordinate Harvard to City Hall. And that, in turn, may change the University's aloofness to neighborliness, a little forced, perhaps, but there nonetheless. The city council is expected to vote, before its summer recess, in favor of a bill that will prohibit the growth of Harvard and other non-profit institutions into residential neighborhoods without special--and very hard to obtain--permission. Under the new law, the Cambridge Community Development department says, "institutional growth would not be completely prohibited...but would be substantially limited...
...trans-Pacific call was evidence that not all members of Congress use the Easter recess, which ended this week, to sound out their constituents at home. Yet as TIME correspondents tracked some of the many lawmakers who do, the voters seemed to be giving them a fairly consistent message. The gist: most citizens view the recuperating President as a highly likable person; his priority in attacking inflation by curbing federal spending coincides neatly with their own sense of the nation's most urgent problem. But they are not at all sure that his specific spending cuts are distributed fairly...
...most Congressmen the recess visits ran into talk of virtually only one subject: the economy. After touring his suburban Los Angeles district, Republican Congressman David Dreier observed: "I have heard nothing about affirmative action, little about abortion, the ERA or gun control. Maybe when the economy settles down, these things will jump back up there." Pushing Reagan's budget proposals hard in an area once represented by Richard Nixon, the freshman Congressman was elated over responses like that from Art Powell, a retired camera-store owner, who declared: "I'm all for Ron Reagan. I want to give...
This targeted criticism of specific budget cuts has grown an understanding of the possible impact of the reductions has spread. Democratic Senator James Sasser said that before the recess, "what I was getting from everybody was a feeling of optimism." But after visiting small communities in western Tennessee, he said, "I encountered anxiety bordering on fear by some old people. They are concerned about Social Security and food stamps...
Grass-roots opposition to the Reagan budget cuts and tax changes remains surprisingly muted, but the lawmakers discovered during the recess that it clearly is growing. Whether it poses any real threat to eventual enactment of the President's full program will not become clear until congress gets down to work on it in the coming weeks. As political partisans, the congressmen tended to hear what they wanted to hear, of course. They were reminded often that the stakes are high in the current economic debate, for their parties as well as for the nation. Predicted Republican Congressman...