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...problems seem so easy out there on the stump. Deficits shrink with a rhetorical flourish. And all you have to do for a summit is ring up the Kremlin and say, "Hey, Konstantin, let's get together next week in Geneva...
...offset the President's appearance today. He will also have to give a push to Democratic Senate candidate Lt. Gov. John F. Kerry, whose lead over Republican Raymond Shamie has not grown despite charges that Shamie is connected to the John Birch Society and may shrink after today's Reagan endorsement...
...those College officials who take the assimilationist tack present minority student recruiters and activists, with the hard choice of misleading more prospective students or seeing their group shrink and fade into the woodwork...
...decline in corporate taxes is largely the result of two decades of congressional changes in the tax code. In most cases legislators designed the rate reductions for such well-intended' purposes as spurring investment, helping struggling industries or boosting jobs. The overall effect has been to shrink the corporate contribution to federal revenue from more than 20% in the 1960s to 6% last year, leading critics to complain that individuals are now bearing a disproportionate share of the federal tax burden. Not all companies have benefited equally, however. Whirlpool for example, paid out 45.6% of its profits in taxes...
...narrowed even if that means raising taxes. Says he: ".Unless we tackle the creeping disease of the deficit, it is going to undermine our economic future." At the other extreme are the supply-siders, who maintain that Reagan's tax-cut program will stimulate enough economic growth to shrink the budget shortfall into insignificance. Asserts Supply-Sider Paul Craig Roberts, a former Assistant Treasury Secretary in the Reagan Administration and now a professor of political economy at Georgetown University: "Deficits...