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...weeks though, final approval is expected for a massive condominium and office development slated for a vacant lot off Mt. Auburn St. The land was purchased by Harvard, and "University Place" was its idea; still, the development has the blessing of local residents, and it bears their stamp as well...
Enter Ronald Reagan, a President who sensed a popular mandate to launch his counterrevolution in tax and spending policy. He persuaded Congress to pass a budget resolution providing for deep cuts in spending, and then a reconciliation bill that changed hundreds of laws, such as those governing food stamp and unemployment benefits, to reduce spending by $35 billion. Both measures were written in the White House; the reconciliation bill was done so hastily that Texas Democrat Jim Wright, the House Majority Leader, called it "the sloppiest piece of draftsmanship I've ever seen-a terrible insult to the Legislative...
Giving the cheese away was not all that simple. Government lawyers were afraid that distributing it to people who receive food stamps would be illegal, since one section of the Food Stamp Act of 1977 put severe restrictions on gifts of commodities to them. But Congress in the new farm till specified that the food-stamp law should not interfere with the distribution of surplus commodities. In most states the cheese came too late for a Christmas present, although the first giveaways, in California, Nevada and Texas, were made last Wednesday. More cheese should be on the tables...
...have the support, we go." But that position poses grave risks, both for Duarte and the U.S., if his Christian Democratic Party loses the election. Some observers, in fact, fear that the election could turn out to be a "slow-motion right-wing coup" that would give a stamp of legitimacy to the extreme right rather than the Christian Democrats...
...Revenge: More than 101 Uses for Dead People. It is the product of Philip Lief, 36. A book packager and author who lives with his wife and cat in Southfield, Mass. He presents human corpses-and parts thereof-that serve gleeful felines as life rafts, bowling balls and stamp-licking machines. His next attempt to amuse in the cat-dollar sweepstakes will appear in March, Cat's Revenge II, and in April, How to Make Love...