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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Alas, this valiant attempt to find something funny about the endless columns of figures was already outdated. The sound-and-sight gag did dramatize what Ronald Reagan considers the theme of the budget he was scheduled to present formally to Congress on Monday: the painful necessity of virtually freezing overall federal spending in order to reduce gargantuan deficits. But long before the fat, gray-bound budget volumes appeared over the weekend, that theme had got lost in a spreading uproar over one component of the budget that Reagan, far from freezing, wants to maintain at a rolling boil: military spending...
Ordinally a disconcerting sight, a dose of Boy George in the morning is potentially deadly, a fact my mother was unaware of a month ago when she plopped the current issue of Harvard Magazine onto my stomach as I lay in bed recovering from New Year's Eve festivities. "Look what's on the cover," she said. "What," indeed. At least the contents behind that now-infamous cover of England's Best Advertisement for Fashion Euthanasia couldn't make me feet any worse than I was feeling already, so I took the plunge into "Androgynous Zones" by Peter Engel...
...company received a standing ovation and after five minutes proceeded to give an encore repeating the last dance. The audience began clapping to the music, humming the tunes; needless to say this is not a common sight at dance performances. The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater has reached a new level in this art' they have combined old and new forms, ballet technique and modern jazz with an ability to evoke intense levels of sincere emotion. Wednesday night's performance was a real treat...
...this diversity that admissions officers promise us and that we enjoy our freshman year is a rare sight once we move three steps closer to the River, or half a mile away, as the case...
...combination of slower growth of defense spending and of Social Security benefits and actual reductions in a wide range of over-size, nondefense programs can lower outlays by $160 billion in 1989. But to reduce the deficit to less than 1% of G.N.P. and bring a balanced budget into sight will also require tax changes that raise 1989 tax revenues by $75 billion to $100 billion...