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...earliest communities, when in fact those crossroads where men met to barter fish for baskets, greens for meat and gold for brides were the places where we first grew to know and communicate with one another." When Sears encounters a fast-food outlet, he checks his urge to scoff with a digression on the role that fried food has played in the development of civilization...
While they still scoff publicly that all American Presidents are alike, accumulation of secret analysis now suggests an adversary slightly off balance. Instead of constantly challenging the U.S., the Soviets grow more eager to talk about reduction of world tension. Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger believes that if Reagan holds his course, it could lead to a new era of superpower moderation...
Some economists, in addition, scoff at the Kemp-Roth tax cuts as bad supply-side economics. In their view, the reductions in personal income taxes will pump up demand far more than they will encourage savings. Says Lester...
...academic skepticism is thick. The Carter people scoff; they tried the same thing and failed. Conventional wisdom suggests that Government is too complex these days for Cabinet officers to have true authority. The problems, say the experts, cut through several departments and agencies and only the White House can arbitrate them. In that environment, Presidents turn to the men nearest them. Aides become, in effect, Cabinet members...
...York that if it allowed him to testify before a Senate subcommittee investigating Vesco II, he would stand trial on at least some of the federal charges against him. Said Vesco to TIME last week: "The time for games has come to an end." Justice Department lawyers scoff at the offer. His real motive, they insist, is to trick the committee into giving him immunity from prosecution for whatever he says in the hearing room - and then talk about every charge against him, no matter how irrelevant to the committee's probe. He then more than likely could...