Word: runaways
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...crack, for the edge always goes to the headliners. Tiffany Chin, who at 16 was competing brilliantly in her first Olympics, could bask in a strong showing while cheerfully accepting the virtual impossibility of a medal. She had finished twelfth in the compulsory figures, and even with a runaway victory in the free skating while others faltered badly, a silver medal was the best she could have won. Said Chin: "I skated good figures, but the other skaters ahead of me were all established with the judges. This is the first time they've seen me skate...
While the White House feuds and Wall Street frets about runaway federal deficits, Main Street is deeply concerned too. The issue has become the most visible and powerful symbol of the general public's fears about the outlook for the U.S. economy...
...last week on Broadway, is set on the ragged fringe of the New York show-biz world: in a Coney Island of the mind where Anna Antonelli's roller-skating rink is about to be demolished, and with it Anna's sour memories of life with her runaway Lothario of a husband and her painfully shy daughter Angel. Terrence McNally's script might suggest a domestic minidrama swathed in poignancy-A Tree Grows in Brooklyn mixed with Terms of Endearment. But from the moment the curtain rises on Peter Larkin's cathedral of a roller rink...
Even the wisdom of the Kissinger commission ignores the key problem in Central America, a runaway birth rate too great for the countries to absorb. Until that situation is brought under control, Marxism will continue to appeal to the hungry, illiterate masses...
Those grand findings should ring melodically in Ronald Reagan's politically attuned ears, for they totally conform to his views about runaway federal spending. Unfortunately for his Administration, they also contain jarring criticisms about how he is managing the Government. The conclusions are the work of a task force of 162 corporate executives* and their staffs, which toiled for 18 months turning out 2,300 pages on Government inefficiency. The group finished last week with the claim that it had pinpointed ways in which $424.4 billion can be saved in just the next three years...