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...courting political folly. The only time a state income tax was enacted in Connecticut, in 1971, it provoked such an outcry that it was repealed within six weeks. Tennesseans dislike the tax so much that the state courts once declared it unconstitutional. Both Governors hope to soften the blow of the new levies by lowering sales taxes. McWherter, a Democrat re-elected last fall, has also made the plan more palatable by promising to channel the new revenue toward education in a state that currently ranks near the bottom in per-pupil expenditure...
Much has changed since then. For one thing, breast cancer is widely discussed. Celebrity after celebrity -- a veritable Breast Cancer Hall of Fame -- has stepped forward to demystify the disease and soften its stigma, beginning with Shirley Temple Black, Ingrid Bergman and Betty Ford, and more recently including Nancy Reagan and Gloria Steinem. Lessons on cancer detection and the importance of mammograms are the subject of elaborate public information campaigns...
...scant feel for the subtleties of legislative or communication strategy. Close friends have urged the President to reach out for help in these areas, although Sununu is so resistant to second-guessing that such consultations are likely to take place only in secret. Meanwhile, Sununu is trying to soften his public image. As Bush barnstormed the country in search of Republican votes, Sununu haunted the so-called buffer zone, the narrow secure area between the podium and the audience, scanning the crowd for a small child. Finding one, he would take the tot by the hand and lead his little...
...very difficult to soften a deficit with a fundraising campaign," said Stanford University President Donald Kennedy '52, whose school is now winding up a $1.1 billion capital drive...
...little that government can do to head off such trouble. The conventional remedy for recession is deficit spending -- but the budget deficit is so swollen there is little room to pump it up further. The Federal Reserve Board is in an especially impossible position. To ward off or soften recession, the Fed would normally lower interest rates; to combat inflation, it would raise them. To fight both together, it should do -- what? The conventional wisdom is stumped for an answer. The time to move was much earlier: wise policy could have reduced U.S. dependence on imported oil and lowered...