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...ceremony in the Rose Garden honoring federal district and appellate court judges and Supreme Court Justices, President Reagan beamed with pride. Looking intently at O'Connor, the President affirmed that the nation demands of judges "a wisdom that knows no time, has no prejudice and wants no other reward." O'Connor did not blanch or blush...
...have stomach flu, shoulder cramps, or whatever) could bash out "Sympathy for the Devil" from a stage adjacent to the big Crimson "H." For Harvard the advantages are obvious: a new image of hipness, relevance and public service of the highest order, and, one suspects, a lucrative financial reward...
...payments to miners suffering from black-lung disease. The Government might save $4 billion to $5 billion next fiscal year, at the price of slicing into some programs that Reagan had earlier defined as part of an untouchable "social safety net." True enough, current formulas are widely believed to reward recipients of some of these benefits, especially Social Security, more than the rise in their real living costs would warrant. Nonetheless, the decision might embarrass the President, who had pledged only last Tuesday that "the budget will not be balanced at the expense of those dependent on Social Security...
...weeks since Krukow's lead-off gaffe, the rest of baseball has gone blundering in his footsteps, devising a "second season" of artificial pennant races that promised to reward bad teams and penalize good ones, and prompted some players and managers to threaten openly that they would throw games if they would benefit by doing so under the screwy new rules. Under a lame-brain plan devised by league officials, the four teams leading their divisions when the strike started June 12 (the New York Yankees, Oakland A's, Philadelphia Phillies and Los Angeles Dodgers) were declared "first...
...five years and vehicles in three years. This "10-5-3" formula, strongly favored by corporations and their lobbyists, should theoretically encourage businesses to invest in new factories and replace obsolescent equipment. Some critics, however, worry lest companies use some of their tax savings for other purposes-to reward stockholders with higher dividends, say, or buy up other businesses in the current urge to merge. But Ted Eck, chief economist for Standard Oil Co. (Indiana), does not agree that business gets a windfall from the new allowances. Says he: "There are lots of goodies in there for small business...