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WILLIAM GRAY III. After Ronald Reagan's election, the Philadelphia Congressman quit the House Budget Committee. He felt frustrated with the Democratic leadership and had no stomach to watch a wholesale amputation of social programs. But he returned to the committee this year and proved himself a master at brokering between the leadership and the Congressional Black Caucus to win concessions on social and jobs programs. "If Bill Gray hadn't been there," says Budget Committee Member Panetta, "a lot of those measures would have been in big trouble...
...getting greater exposure." A newfound sense of financial security has also been an aid to creativity. Says he: "There's this myth that the artist has to starve in the attic, but that's romantic nonsense. I can write just as good music on a full stomach as on an empty stomach-and maybe it's even better...
...could prove decisive against the guerrillas in El Salvador. As for Nicaragua, a full-scale U.S.-supported invasion by the contras and the Honduran armed forces might drive the Sandinistas back into the countryside, but almost certainly the war would go on, and the U.S. would have little stomach...
...process he loses his fiance* Maria, who wants to marry him but refuses to accept his strike-breaking. Participating in the strike demonstrations against Tiao's wishes, Maria gets kicked in the stomach by an undercover company hired hand. We see Maria's blood-covered knees and elbows because she won't compromise her morals for Tiao...
...also has more than 120,000 pharmacists. One of the most severe criticisms of Japanese medicine made by Westerners is that family doctors overprescribe. An American scholar who recently consulted a Japanese doctor for a mildly sprained ankle came away with a muscle relaxant, an anti-inflammatory drug, a stomach powder to ease the side effects of the drugs, and a foot plaster. In the U.S., he probably would have been told to stay off the foot for a while and take a few aspirin...