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Even with Humphrey lending congressional cutters aid and comfort, the total cuts in the budget will certainly be a lot less than Byrd's $6.5 billion, proving again the old rule that the snap of Congress' scissors is sharper than the snip. Foreign aid seems sure to be slashed unless the President comes to its rescue. But on the domestic front, indiscriminate congressional pork-barreling, logrolling, and horse-trading are almost certain to add some unnecessary fat, partly making up for whatever fat-and lean-is trimmed...
...privileged position is that of serving as an objective chronicler, watchdog, critic, and independent or extralegal check," says he. By holding "at arm's length" all requests for staffers to serve on charitable, civic and government boards, the Post has found that reporters' "criticism is sharper, the praise is less inhibited and carries a greater impact. And the news about the agencies stays clean...
...springs of American radicalism were drained into the stagnant pool of the Communist Party, there were generations of hedging and ditching. Engels sadly noted that Americans were "practical" but tremendously backward in "theory." At first the Socialist movement in the U.S. was largely staffed by immigrants who had a sharper taste for theory, and the Socialist Labor Party of North America would have remained a "small, moribund, foreign-language sect" had not practical, native forces been stirring...
Another sign of easing is that bank loans and bank investments dropped by $2.3 billion in January, as businessmen lived off their inventories and postponed marginal expansion plans rather than borrow heavily at high interest rates. In addition, January also brought a sharper than seasonal liquidation of bank credit, in which heavy repayments of loans more than wiped out a big credit increase in December...
...painted in watercolor. The general's foundling son may just be the latest in a long Gilbertian line; but the Jostling father, the middle-aged satyr with his subaltern dreams, who finds it harder to grow older because he has never really grown up, is part of a sharper comic vision. The figure of the general suggests that there would be much less war between men and women were there not so often war in one and the same breast between...