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...inflation, the 1985 budget is the largest submitted by the Pentagon since World War II, including the years of the Korean and Viet Nam wars. It had something for everyone, as the Senate and House Armed Services committees found out last week in sometimes fractious briefings. Said one Senate staffer: "In a $305 billion budget, there can't be any real losers...
...computer. He has also pushed work on a series of Lisa products and has tried to make them compatible with Mac. The new Lisas, which range in price from $3,495 to $5,495, will run programs written for Mac. The pace has taken its toll. Complains one Apple staffer: "People are working their buns off. It's difficult to see straight. We've got crazy schedules...
...officials nonetheless caution against optimism. "There has been a lot of hype in calling this arrangement new and comprehensive," says a State Department staffer. "Everyone seems to want to do this, but this is the Middle East, remember...
Rachel Flick, 25, White House staffer, on providing contraceptives for teenagers: "To tell a 13-year-old that it's O.K. to play with sex if she follows the rules is like telling a four-year-old that it's O.K. to play with fire if she is very careful...
...first weeks of 1981, the newly inaugurated Reagan Administration was divided over whether to go ahead with either track of the NATO decision, deployment or negotiation. At a meeting in February, Richard Perle, the hawkish congressional staffer who would soon become the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy, called the NATO initiative that had been approved by President Jimmy Carter "a lousy decision if ever there...