Word: reliefs
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...returned to the Senate. He had belatedly discovered what most candidates had learned much earlier in the campaign. If they wanted to get elected, they had better propose some kind of cut in taxes or spending or both. The American people had soured on costly government and demanded relief ?now. That was, as much as any, the message of last week's off-year elections...
Atiyeh, the son of Syrian immigrants, will be the nation's first Governor of Arab descent. In a vigorous grass-roots campaign, he traveled 40,000 miles, relentlessly calling for tax relief for homeowners. Straub apparently misread the antitax mood until very late in the campaign. Said Atiyeh after his victory: "I think the phrase from the movie Network covers what I've been hearing during this campaign: 'I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it any more...
...more than $30 billion this year; the deficit with Japan will account for almost half of that. Economist Otto Eckstein of Data Resources Inc. in Lexington, Mass., last week declared that what is really needed to restore the dollar's health is "quick and dramatic relief from Japanese imports." In trade, says Eckstein, the Japanese "have done nothing for us." The Japanese, for their part, argue vehemently that they have done much to open up their market and that it is now the fault of American exporters if they cannot crack it. Who is right...
...more than a few deaths) as it moves along. McMurtry tosses off a few good Sam Spade-ish one-liners (an aging producer toasting in the poolside sun is a "ninety-year-old french fry"), and a pair of good-ole-boy screenwriters from Texas provide boisterous comic relief. McMurtry, who knows the Hollywood milieu firsthand, reveals a nice sense of place and trade. The celluloid scene has been done before; what McMurtry gives it-as he gave that sour Texas town in his The Last Picture Show-is a sense that even the meanest lives deserve a measure...
...issue of property tax relief had dominated virtually all of the contested state House and Senate campaigns, with most candidates promising to support either a Proposition 13-style tax rollback or a more moderate form of tax relief. Some younger Senate candidates also pledged to democratize Senate rules...