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...President paid scant attention to an issue that will figure prominently in the political debate in the next few months: the need to create more jobs. While saying that "no domestic challenge is more crucial," he rejected the palliative of a high-priced jobs bill. O'Neill countered by proposing a $5 billion jobs package, although he provided no suggestion on how it could be financed. Republican Senators Dan Quayle of Indiana and Orrin Hatch of Utah offered their own jobs program, which would cost $2.1 billion...
...sense, death's deterrent power has never really been given a chance in the U.S. Even during the comparative execution frenzy of the 1930s, hardly one in 50 murderers was put to death, a scant 2%. Reppetto estimates that if 25% of convicted killers were executed, 100 a week or more, there might be a deterring effect. But it is unthinkable, he agrees, that the U.S. will begin dispatching its villains on such a wholesale basis. Even at a rate of 100 executions annually, an implausibly high figure given today's judicial guarantees, a killer's chances...
...some other friends gravitated toward an outfit called the Homebrew Computer Club in 1975, and Jobs would occasionally drop by. Wozniak was the computer zealot, the kind of guy who can see a sonnet in a circuit. What Jobs saw was profit. At convocations of the Homebrew, Jobs showed scant interest in the fine points of design, but he was enthusiastic about selling the machines Wozniak was making...
...said out loud at all. On a tour of the Middle East last February, for example, Weinberger suggested that Jordan should receive an antiaircraft missile system from the U.S., forcing Reagan to write a soothing letter to Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin. On the other hand, Weinberger has scant interest in mastering the complexities of arms control negotiations. He has no background or expertise in the field, and so relies on his aides to do his thinking...
Martins fondly recalls the mornings when Balanchine arrived at the theater at 8 a.m. to help him with the fine points of lighting. But Mr. B. was not always so accommodating. A scant three hours before the premiere of Martins' setting of Stravinsky's Suite from Histoire du Soldat, Balanchine examined the costumes, pronounced them "awful" and threw them out. The dancers went on clothed in bits and pieces from the costume bins and shod in boots that Martins himself had spray-painted black an hour earlier. "He was right," Martins now says. "The costumes I had picked...