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...Buddy Roemer, Representative...
...unique design makes the X-29A as skittish as a colt. "It's roughly like throwing an arrow backward," says Robert Roemer, head of the X-29A project for Grumman. "No human could handle the multitude of adjustments necessary to keep this bird in stable flight." So three computers do the work for the pilot, making 40 adjustments a second to the wings and canards to keep the plane from ripping apart. In effect, the pilot guides he plane by feeding directions into the computer. If all the computers were to fail, the X-29A would self destruct...
...modest spending cuts and small revenue increases achieved by closing tax loopholes, would hardly dent the deficit. Said Republican Senator John Heinz of Pennsylvania: "The President's budget is a retreat from last year's budget plan. There is not a lot of leadership." Grumbled Congressman Charles Roemer, a Louisiana Democrat: "Reagan is like a Louisiana bullfrog: all mouth, no guts...
...doesn't come at it from a particular nation of ideology." HIID Executive director Michael Roemer says of Perkins's writings on Third world economics. Which are widely quoted in scholarly circles, Perkins explains. "I tend to approach contemporary problems from a historical perspective...
...President. Even some of those who had been closest to Ike were surprised to hear a former Harvard professor, William B. Ewald, report that Eisenhower had come from oblivion to ninth place on the list of great Presidents compiled by historians. "The more I think about it," said Roemer McPhee, who was a young lawyer in Ike's White House, "the more I believe that President Eisenhower's indispensable attribute was his restraint. He never used too much of his power. He never spent too much of the country's wealth. He never insisted on having...