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...prize example, important in itself and as an illustration of Reagan's decision-making processes. It had a prologue about a year ago, when a number of advisers, worried about the deficits that already loomed menacingly, pressed the President to prepare a fiscal 1983 budget recommending a slowdown in military spending and sizable tax increases. They were rebuffed so completely that they are not about to challenge the boss's most cherished beliefs so directly again. A favorite saying around the White House is that one staff member or another "broke his pick" confronting Reagan with such unwelcome advice...
...strategy, so far, has failed resoundingly. When Legislative Aide Kenneth Duberstein reported at a budget meeting that even so fervent a congressional hawk as Trent Lott of Mississippi, the Republican House whip, is now calling for a slowdown in military spending, the President silently shook his head no. Reagan then interrupted the uncomfortable session to place a call to the astronauts aboard the Columbia space shuttle. As if glad for an escape, he told the astronauts, "Well, now, wait till I get my hat and I'll go with...
...political elite who constitute his power base. What will the political elite seek in the post-Brezhnev era? Certainly it wants to unclog the avenues of advancement that Brezhnev and his gerontocrats have blocked. Beyond that, the top priority is to get the country moving, after the sharp economic slowdown that has set in during the past three years. In the next generation's struggle for power, "the domestic economy has to be the major issue," says the Rand Corporation's Thane Gustafson. Careers will be made or broken and alliances concluded or undone over new proposals to revitalize...
Although no board member saw either doomsday case as the most likely possibility, the TIME group believed that the international credit crisis would cause continued troubles for both the Third World and the U.S. Said Greenspan: "There will be a slowdown in lending, very considerable difficulties in developing countries to achieve their growth targets, and probably significant political problems for some countries." In the U.S., the debt troubles could mean less bank lending and slightly higher interest rates. The world banking crisis would thus be one additional trouble for an American economy struggling to pull out of a long, steep...
...mere 5.4% for the first seven months of 1982. Inflation had been raging at a rate of 12.4% in 1980, and it was going at an annual pace of 9.7% in January 1981, the month Reagan was inaugurated. The drop since then has been caused by a sharp slowdown in wage hikes, due to the recession, and by only moderate increases and even some declines in the cost of food, fuel, housing and other key consumer items. Many economists expect inflation to remain at 5% to 6% for the rest of the year...