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...stadium concessionaires, innkeepers, restaurateurs and airlines shudder at the thought. In Green Bay, Wis., where it is a little early in the year for shuddering, the loss is most telling and most personal. Green Bay (pop. 89,000) is the smallest true N.F.L. city, and the Packers are the property of 1,700 Wisconsin stockholders who kept the team from failing in the 1950s by buying stock at $25 a share. Mayor Samuel Halloin notes with pride and pain, "This is not a situation where a few wealthy individuals own the team." For every game canceled in Green Bay (four...
...idea whose time has clearly come, at least for politicians in an election year. It is also an idea that makes many economists, constitutional scholars and other Americans shudder. The idea: an amendment to the U.S. Constitution requiring that the federal budget be balanced each year. Before the summer is over, there is a strong chance that Congress will take the first steps toward incorporating this elusive goal into the basic law of the land...
Baseball is a boy's game. "If you ever lose the little boy in you," shudder the fat men and the bald men in the knickers and the beanies, "well. . ." Well, it's over, that's all. You can lose a step, even two. You can lose the hop on your fastball, though you may have to learn a knuckler. But if you ever grow up, you can't be a Lost Boy any more. Sorry, those are the rules of never-never land...
...thought of having those computer kids around makes parents shudder, both in America and Japan. But there is a difference. American parents pay to get computers for their schools. Japanese parents, on the other hand, do nothing. Even teachers think it is unnecessary to have computers in the classroom. Japan won't be an industrial giant for long. American businessmen can relax...
...taxes still further, on top of the huge future increases already written into law. Though some Social Security experts believe that a relatively small additional increase could both stop the immediate cash drain and build adequate reserves to handle the 21st century demographic dilemma', the idea makes politicians shudder. As a matter of equity and politics, there is little appeal in further increasing a tax whose burden falls most heavily on low-income workers, while the well off escape Social Security taxes on a portion of their earnings and are having their income taxes cut. There is justified concern...