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...that massive taxcuts and comprehensive deregulation could unleash, a spirit of enterprise and discipline that would signal the awakening of a new America. Crackpots, more conventional economists called them, but the three set their nets out and fished for disciples, drawing in with ease the school of neo-conservatives, ripe for policies that put to test their surmises that an unequal distribution of society's rewards best served its interests. Congressman Jack Kemp took off his football helmet and preached of his countrymen's spirit for hard work, one which the across-the-board tax cuts he proposed would...
...Congress, where unions have long spoken loudly and carried a big stick, labor's political influence is waning. Conservatives in the Senate, under the banner of deregulation, have begun mounting an attack on federal labor laws, some of which are probably ripe for overhauling. One target: the 1931 Davis-Bacon Act, which shores up wages by requiring that workers on many federal contracts be paid the "prevailing wage" in an area...
...youngest person ever to serve as a trustee at Brandeis University University is Michael J. Sandel, assistant professor of Government, who was recently elected to a five-year term at the ripe young...
Take the Pentagon Officers' Athletic Club, for example. None other than the eminently authoritative New York Times noted last week that this "linoleum oasis" offers a crop of one liners ripe for the picking. "Reagan orders military belt tightening; Joint Chiefs hit the Universal for sweat-and-strategy session. Stock-man urges they 'Drop for 40 more."' You could...
...ends "Shot of Love", leaving us with many more questions. Dylan will always be ripe for attack. We can question his simplicity (for example, is the logical conclusion of "Property of Jesus" an approval of religious fanaticism?). We can criticize his beliefs. But we cannot say he lacks guts. Bob Dylan is no man's lackey. He will always do and sing what he believes. The times they are a changin', but not Dylan. He still has integrity...