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...prevent tax rates from rising with inflation. Finance Committee Chairman Dole, however, defends indexing as "the best idea" of the 1981 Congress, and he could make its repeal very difficult. Nor is there a realistic chance for a tax increase this year if Reagan opposes it. Indeed, the only shred of bipartisan agreement is over Reagan's plan for a stand-by tax increase: almost everyone agrees it will not fly. Said Louisiana Senator Russell Long, ranking Democrat on the Finance Committee: "I don't think we should vote for a tax increase...
...Cottle, "celebrities express the feeling of being dehumanized by dint of their celebrity. I'm trying to recapture their humanity." The trouble is that his famous guests, performers by instinct, have a tendency to be psychic strippers. With the merest prodding they will shred the last thread of privacy and reveal intimate aspects of their lives. Cottle calls it the "strangers on a train" phenomenon. Yet his guests expose themselves to a faceless audience of millions, turning viewers into video voyeurs...
Timerman may be right. But he never adduces a shred of evidence to prove government wrongdoing. He writes of Sharon. "He has been lying for several weeks, and the proof is irrefutable." And satisfied with this condemnation, he doesn't mention a single statement of Sharon's, much less prove it a fabrication...
...hard-charging Mexican chains have carefully catered to regional tastes as they have grown. W.R. Grace's El Torito goes so far as to grind its beef in Southwestern cities like Houston and Dallas and to shred it in San Francisco and Los Angeles, where diners prefer it that way. Says Anwar Soliman, executive vice president for Grace's restaurant group: "You have to look at all these subtleties. It's critical in some places, particularly the Midwest." Soliman predicts that Mexican restaurants will double their business by 1985. Many others are bullish as well...
...more of the chicken, please, and another shred of the fish. A splash of the Chenin Blanc ... Perfect: a good, muscular working lunch. Serious but not pompous, the visitor tells himself, a lunch to give shape to the day. Claiborne, a soft-voiced Southerner with a little boy's grin, murmurs encouragement. Franey, a blocky, square-faced Burgundian who was chef at Manhattan's Le Pavilion restaurant during the proprietorship of the great Henri Soulé, watches with approval...