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That characteristically blunt comment sums up the Reagan Administration's side of an intensifying national debate about the President's plans to slash federal spending and taxes. As the draconian nature of the program has begun to sink in around the country, newspaper stories, TV shows and liberal critics in and out of Congress increasingly have portrayed the program as one that redistributes income from poor to rich-specifically by reducing benefits the needy have come to rely on while reserving the program's greatest tax savings for the already well-off. Implicit in much of this...
...wool Democrat. "That and the beginning of spring give me energy that flows to my hair roots." Even before they noticed the sapphire-and-diamond "friendship ring" on Gouletas' finger last week, reporters were asking if a wedding was in the works. "A slip of the lip can sink a ship," replied Carey, "and I don't intend for my ship to sink." The lip slipped later in the week on the subject of U.S.-made automobiles. Disposable "Rleenex cars," he called them. Former Girlfriend and Ford Motor Heiress Anne Ford Uzielli would not have liked that...
Some geologists foresee a time when towns and cities, indeed even individual plants, factories and small groups of homes, could sink gas wells and become largely self-sufficient for many of their energy needs. In some places, that is already happening. On the campus of Wells College, in the upstate New York farm town of Aurora, a single gas well is expected to produce 200,000 cu. ft. of gas per day, saving the institution about $34,000 yearly in energy costs...
Spectators were frisked and had to walk through metal detectors. Twice a day, dogs sniffed around for bombs. The courtroom was crammed with evidence-wigs, explosive paraphernalia, even the proverbial kitchen sink (it bore palm prints). Only one thing was missing during the six-day trial at the federal office building in Chicago: a defendant...
...completed in five weeks, half the normal time. But when the proprietor tried to explain the marvels of his "electronic studio," his guests bombarded him with questions about the cash crisis that has imperiled One from the Heart, his $23 million fantasy about love in Las Vegas, and may sink Zoetrope altogether. Was the nation's premier moviemaker in trouble? Said he, throwing his palms out: "I'm always in money trouble...