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With a Democratic-dominated House and a Republican-controlled Senate, tax reform cannot succeed without the support of both parties. In the afterglow of Reagan's speech, there were ritual promises of bipartisanship, but old rivalries and resentments are sure to resurface. Rostenkowski, for one, has some scores to settle with the Reaganauts. In 1981 they lured him into supporting tax cuts and then dumped his compromise bill to pass their own. Though he was all sweetness in his TV address, Rostenkowski is "irritated" that the Reaganauts did not include him in their final deliberations on the tax plan. "They...
With a Democratic-dominated House and a Republican-controlled Senate, tax reform cannot succeed without the support of both parties. In the afterglow of Reagan's speech, there were ritual promises of bipartisanship, but old rivalries and resentments are sure to resurface. Rostenkowski, for one, has some scores to settle with the Reaganauts. In 1981 they lured him into supporting tax cuts and then dumped his compromise bill to pass their own. Though he was all sweetness in his TV address, Rostenkowski is "irritated" that the Reaganauts did not include him in their final deliberations on the tax plan. "They...
...festival's few moments of redeeming silliness. For the third straight year, a nagging rain dampened spirits, and neither green-haired mimes nor 6-ft.-tall strolling Care Bears could lure visitors outside. The weather also diminished opportunities for the festival's oldest and most assiduously recorded sideshow: the ritual display of starlet flesh. Young women desiring to disrobe in public were forced to go high tech. Isabelle Solar, chief ornament of the French soft-core epic Joan, could be seen on the closed-circuit hotel TV network slipping into a steamy bubble bath. In other respects, Cannes voyeurism...
Indeed, the ritual of the graceful no is Ronald Reagan's virtuosity. He fired the air-traffic controllers on a beautifully sunny morning in the Rose Garden with a calm and injured tone in his voice. That action as much as any other in his first term established him as a leader to be reckoned with. To reduce the federal deficit, Reagan cut back funds for cities and states. Mayors and Governors denounced him at their conventions but also streamlined their regimes. A surprising number of them now have balanced budgets. Of course, they still complain about Reagan...
...Africa's white community, the 16% minority that rules a nation at once divided and single-minded. Over the course of the book, Van der Merwe and more than 30 other Wyndal residents vent their passions, explain their prejudices and in effect deliver their own eulogies. "We lack (tribal ritual) so terribly in our society," laments Peter Cooke, an English farmer, in confessing his envy of a nonwhite childhood friend. "We have no order. We drift about. We are lost...