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...federal budget exquisitely tailored to the current agenda of the American right. The government is to be forced off the backs of the people, through reductions in social services, safety regulations and income assistance, leaving private enterprise free to invest and expand in ways that will take up the slack for the abandoned government functions. The Defense Department is exempt from these cutbacks because it must increase preparedness against the world-wide Soviet threat. Furthermore, the government will cut taxes in an effort to encourage investment in the once-again-robust private sector...
Chronic illness plagues old people far more than acute short-term illness. Medicare, which ends after only ninety days, scarcely aids chronically ill patients. Traditionally, as the costs of long-term care impoverished old people, Medicaid, a medical support program for the poor, took up much of the coverage slack. But the Reagan administration wants to cut federal funds for the state-run Medicaid programs...
...lineup has one big gap: Pitcher Don Sutton, the alltime Dodger leader in victories (230, against 175 losses), joined Houston as a free agent during the offseason. Says Garvey: "You hope that the whole staff can combine to take up the slack. And we have some good young pitchers coming along...
Hitters Jon Tanakea, David Coatsworth and Kevin O'Sullivan played well, taking up the slack in the Crimson offense...
...like voting rights to protest focused on issues with less support, like the economic problems that were emerging as intractable plagues in Black America. Without a visible enemy and without the fire borrowed from the southern campuses at the start of the sit-in period, SNCC workers began to slack off, long-standing projects began to fade, and the "circle of trust" that once had banded together the organization's leadership began to crack...