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...calamity of tremendous proportions, and the old business-as-usual treatment can't save us." The fault, he said, lies in an explosive growth of Government spending, "punitive" taxes and excessive regulation that are sapping the economy's productive strength. The only solution, he said, is to slice both spending and taxes, deeply and together...
Soon after the hilarious Douglas Show sequence, though, Shrinking Woman starts to deteriorate. Schumacher and Wagner cop out; their cruel and gleeful dissection of the tacky American bourgeoisie stops in mid-slice: there are no more scences of Pat and her hubby getting frisky to the beat of Muzak disco, no more jokes about Explodo-Gum, the treat that causes green saliva to ooze from the mouths of sweet-toothed kids. Instead, the filmmakers concentrate on a hackneyed sub-plot about the Organization for World Management, a sinister group of slick, young corporate types who plot to control the world...
...posing for snapshots at the gas pump, permanent beer can ominously poised. Even the President-elect and his wife were visible, making occasional forays to greet childhood friends or to eat at the nearest restaurants-every forkful watched for significance by a merciless post-Watergate press corps. A sizable slice of the citizenry willingly guided the influx of strangers round the sites-Jimmy's birthplace, his country home, his father's simple grave. (The ambitious monuments in the cemetery are not marked CARTER, however, but WISE and FAUST...
...Office of Management and Budget, he accepted with alacrity. It was, after all, a chance to put into practice the budget gospel that he had been preaching during his two terms as a Congressman from southern Michigan: cut, cut and slash, slash. His boss has promised to slice 2% from the $640 billion budget for 1981; Stockman may push for more radical surgery. Earlier this year, he advocated abolishing federal revenue sharing with cities and states, paring back federal job programs, freezing Medicaid payments, and reducing appropriations for foreign aid, social science research and mass transit. In addition, he said...
...industry, which now supplies 25% of the nation's energy needs, holds a commanding share of the heating market. It is estimated that gas has 55% of that market, down 1% in the past five years, while oil's slice has slipped from 23% to 20%. Electricity heats 17% of the nation's homes, with the remainder warmed by solar power, wood and propane gas. Last year 365,000 homes were converted to gas, mostly in the patch of Northern states stretching from Maine to Michigan, where oil usage is heavy; this year almost 400,000 homes...