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...lazy. Franklin Roosevelt was the exemplar of the bold, joyous activist, Coolidge and Hoover the chill naysayers (so the academic stereotype went), Ike the lazy nice guy. So here came Reagan, not overworking himself but relishing the job and the power, using it with great gusto and skill to shrink the role of Government and of the President...
...similar in their fundamentals that the resulting legislation, if any, should satisfy just about everyone. If a good reform is passed, Congress won't have to vivisect any programs, Reagan won't have to raise taxes, and the public will finally see some indication that the deficit might shrink...
...only to blunt their offensive threat but to join the U.S. in the repudiation of MAD and in the embrace of strategic defenses. The superpowers, Kampelman will tell Karpov, have a mutual interest in gradually moving away from their current reliance on offensive nuclear weapons and letting their arsenals shrink under the benevolent influence of omnipotent antiweapons. That evolution, the U.S. negotiator will say, can be regulated by arms control...
...then the Italians did before them? Some observers think not. "The majority of high-ranking officers in most departments are white, and will be for some time," says John Glover, the one black among eleven assistant directors of the FBI. This small pool of future black chiefs may shrink further as opportunities for blacks open up in more lucrative fields. But the fact remains that the nation's largest cities are increasingly dominated by politicians who know that to survive they must alleviate minority hostility toward police. That political reality and the accomplishments of the current cluster of black brass...
...spending on food stamps and Medicare while approving higher outlays for missiles, planes, tanks and guns. If you are going to try to freeze overall spending, well, freeze everything. Then at least we can tell our constituents that everyone is sharing in the sacrifices that must be made to shrink the deficit...