Word: stockman
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Twenty-one teen-agers in T shirts and jeans are sitting around a big, doughnut-shaped table. They are all sneaking glances at the short, plump, balding man seated in their midst. "He's awfully old," whispers Stacie Stockman, with a toss of her head. "I was hoping for someone younger. I would like to think we could change his mind." Schoolmate James Perkins nods knowingly: "Yeah, his ideas are probably set in concrete...
...Treasury Secretary has remained true to his word. As point man in the Administration's drive for a threeyear, 25% cut in personal income taxes, Regan has emerged from the obscurity of his first days in office-and from the shadow of highly visible Budget Director David Stockman-as a tough and unyielding negotiator. The package he presented last week to the Senate and House tax-writing committees was stamped bipartisan, thanks to the endorsement of Kent Hance, conservative Democrat on the House Ways and Means Committee. But its contents were almost 100% Reagan...
...solid team player. There's no danger that he'll wander off freelance, like Stockman has a tendency to do. That gives him added clout in the White House...
...familiar with the fact that President Reagan is a jelly bean addict - and that he shares a jar of jelly beans with his Cabinet each time we meet. The jar starts in front of Dave Stockman. There, unfortunately, it also stops dead. The Budget Director is scribbling down numbers - and putting minus signs after them. This demands his total attention. Psychological interpretation: a man whose pleasures he in long-term numbers, not in short-term gratification...
...predicted rejuvenation of the free enterprise system, we have our doubts there, too. Reagan's tax plan (if, as expected, it passes) will offer low and middle-income tax-payers little relief to their already-too-high tax rates, and instead offer the rich a bonanza that David Stockman and company hope will be invested in the reindustrialization of America, Anger against unfairly distributed taxes is justified, but unfortunately it has often been channeled toward measures that do not address the true injustices and make the continuation of essential government services nearly impossible. Our own state, Massachusetts, once known...