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...many voters, Government now appears to be not an ally but an enemy whose tax-and-spend policies foster wilder and wilder roller-coaster rides of inflation and recession. With the nation turning against Big Government, the Democrats have run out of acceptable new ideas?their stock in trade for so long ?because the ideas have always involved creation of an ever larger bureaucracy. Ironically, it is Ronald Reagan, with his nostalgic vision of a day when the individual was great and the Government small, who now appears as the innovator, proposing risky but exciting new courses?...
Remember Howard Jarvis and Proposition 13? Well, like roller disco, tax fever has spread to the East Coast. Actually, Proposition 2 1/2 is a state measure, designed to severely limit property taxes, higher here than in any other state. But if the law passes, and current indications are that voters will approve the measure, Cambridge is in for more trouble than most Bay State communities...
...spumoni fudge and specialty cement. For the list mavin with less esoteric tastes, Luongo offers his verdicts on the best available wines, foods, hotels, shops and salmon waters, as well as just about everything else enlistable from banana ice cream to bouillabaisse, pizza to personal submarines, johnnycakes to jogging roller skates...
...compared with Oregon's Mount St. Helens. Experts might challenge Luongo's contention that the best botanical garden is in St. Louis (New York City's in The Bronx is at least bigger); that the Beast at King's Island in Ohio is the wildest roller coaster (over Coney Island's Cyclone?); that the premier Cabernet Sauvignon wine comes from the Napa Valley's Heitz Cellars (some might award this prize to the Robert Mondavi reserve...
...they failed. But as they rode an emotional roller coaster through the Republican National Convention, some of the coolest operators in U.S. politics clung to the heady notion that they could somehow restructure the American presidency in a mere 36 hours. Even after their feverish efforts collapsed, reducing their spirits from exhilaration to a despair tinged with bitterness, political intimates of former President Gerald Ford and Republican Presidential Candidate Ronald Reagan looked back wistfully at how close they felt they had come to working a strange sort of political miracle...