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...sequence, Rice steals Brooke's keys and sneaks through the auction house where she works, in an attempt to search her desk for evidence. Suddenly, he stops and says aloud. "This is dumb." The abruptness of the self-deprecating remark underscores his ambivalent feelings: While Dr. Rice the shrink recognizes an element of the ridiculous in his decision to play detective. Sam Rice the man is prey to an overpowering need to satisfy his curiosity...
...night and the Government is brought to a standstill," he told Republican congressional leaders. "I won't sign a continuing resolution if it has jobs legislation in it." The Democrats, hoping that Reagan would seem like Scrooge if he killed a jobs bill just before Christmas, did not shrink from a confrontation. "Who does he think he is?" demanded House Majority Leader Jim Wright of Texas. "He is not Big Daddy, the dictator who writes legislation...
...their income simply because of inflation. But that will hold down revenues and help perpetuate the deficit dilemma. Given Congress's reluctance to make necessary cuts in spending and Reagan's determination to boost defense outlays, Schultze, Heller and Eckstein contended that the best way to shrink the budget gap may be to scrap the indexing plan. If Congress decided immediately to repeal indexing, the action might reassure financial markets and help bring down long-term interest rates...
...this would enable the Government to begin to shrink its monstrous stockpiles, which now amount to a full year's domestic consumption of some grains, and, by Block's perhaps overly optimistic estimate, could save as much as $5 billion between now and fiscal 1985 in price-support payments and storage fees, which totaled $12 billion in the past fiscal year. Block also believes the plan would have a negligible effect on retail food prices...
...researches found that students see Scotch drinker, as "individuals who lead a high-status lifestyle" and as intelligent, successful and header-looking than people who shrink other beverages...