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Economists have good reason to rearrange their vocabulary. Upbeat statistics, from strong department-store and auto sales to improved housing starts, suggest that consumers are regaining their confidence faster than expected, and surprised forecasters are rushing back to their computers to come up with rosier predictions. Last week the Commerce Department released a preliminary "flash" estimate that the U.S. gross national product was growing at a 6.6% annual rate, after adjustment for inflation, during the April-June quarter, up from 2.6% in the year's first three months. Many economists believe that second quarter G.N.P. growth may actually...
...discussion. The group-consisting of top White House aides led by Baker, Republican Senate chairmen led by New Mexico's Pete Domenici, and House Democratic chairmen led by Oklahoma's Jim Jones-agreed to use the economic assumptions of the Congressional Budget Office rather than the rosier Administration numbers. According to the CBO, the deficit for fiscal 1983, which begins Oct. 1, could reach $180 billion if Congress does not pass any of the spending cuts proposed by Reagan. The Administration's formal budget proposal, based on the dubious assumption that Congress will accept the radical changes...
...garrulity was not his blunder. Mr. Stockman's Administration-shaking mistake was not that he talked, but how he talked. He used a metaphor. Moreover, it was "a rotten, horrible, unfortunate metaphor," as he put it un-metaphorically in his news conference. Yet life would be no rosier for Mr. Stockman had his metaphor been lovely, wonderful and fortunate. For a politician there is no such thing as a fortunate metaphor...
Peter Alzado does not yet speak verse well enough to warrant being entrusted with both the Duke of Burgundy and the herald Montjoy. But Isabelle Rosier is an unalloyed delight as the 19-year-old princess Katharine, whom Henry woos with inadequate French even while wearing the correct French motto of the Order of the Garter embroidered on his leg riband...
Gordon W. Rosier Edmonds, Wash...