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...Then he hit upon an exotic ploy. Lye got three llamas, those feisty beasts with keen eyesight, fearsome spit, a mean kick-and a passable resemblance to sheep. At first the coyotes were buffaloed. Every time they came down for a hit the llamas would spit, then stomp and slash with their front hooves. "For two weeks, they were effective," says Lye. "Then the coyotes figured them out. They are the shrewdest predator that there...
Taxes: Sons of Proposition 13. Ever since Californians voted to slash property taxes by 57% two years ago, Proposition 13 fever has been spreading across the country. This week tax-cutting measures appeared on ten state ballots. The tax revolt hit hardest in Massachusetts, a state that has long been dubbed Taxachusetts because of its high levies, including a property tax 70% higher than the national average. Bay Staters voted drastic relief in the form of Proposition 2½, which will limit a homeowner's property tax to 2.5% of the full market value, reduce the motor vehicle excise...
...carrier into Tulsa, St. Louis and other less congested Midwestern and Southern cities. Says he: "Our target is where big airlines have cut back, the heartland of Middle America." The new airline will fly fuel-efficient DC-9 Super 80s, and Muse says that he will slash prices by up to 66%. Fares will be low enough to "get people off the interstate highways and onto airplanes." And what about stewardess outfits? A slight smirk ripples through Muse's white mustache as he says: "They won't look like World War II nurses' uniforms...
Harvard astronomers fear the government will slash funds earmarked for a National Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA) mission to study Haley's comet when it passes through the solar system...
...cannot defend Carter's record on the economy, but Reagan would be worse. To argue that one can slash taxes (Reagan supports the Kemp-Roth proposal), increase defense spending and balance the budget strikes us, as Reagan's own running mate (and a terrifying personality in his own right) has said, as "voodoo economics." Where Carter has consistently supported labor, Reagan still questions the validity even of the minimum wage. Reagan would not stop with trimming domestic programs; he has promised to eliminate some agencies (the Departments of Energy' and Education, for example) that Carter has established...