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...resurgence in national leadership. As if Roosevelt's ghost had sponsored him, Historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., a biographer of F.D.R., showed up in Washington to extol his new book, The Cycles of American History, and offer his own resonant warnings that the "worship of party" could swallow up the purposes. "One wishes that the ^ intellectual energy expended in recent years on procedural reform had been devoted instead to the substance of our problems," wrote Schlesinger. "Nor are substantive problems going to be solved by large committees with two representatives from every state. Ideas are produced by individuals working...
...December, Congress passed, and President Reagan signed into law, the Gramm- Rudman-Hollings Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. Cast as an amendment to a measure raising the U.S. debt ceiling above $2 trillion, Gramm-Rudman was the sugarcoating to help embarrassed Congressmen swallow that gargantuan figure. The law required that annual federal deficits, now hovering at the $200 billion level, be reduced in stages to zero by 1991. It also said that if Congress and the President could not agree on the cuts, across-the-board reductions, determined by the U.S. Comptroller General, would be ordered...
Capsules remain popular with consumers despite the poison scares. While these pills are no more effective than tablets, many people find capsules better tasting and easier to swallow. Judy Newbold, a resident of Auburn, is resigned about the discovery of poisoned medication in her town. Says she: "It's just one of those things you have to take in stride. There are kooks everywhere...
...instance, such as the recent tampering cases, causes us to review our products." A prudent middle course would be for all manufacturers to adopt one of the new technologies for safer capsules as quickly as possible. If that does not stop the poisonings, the companies may have to swallow hard and abandon capsules for good...
...extremely difficult to peg exactly why we separate many foreign policy issues into good and evil. One obvious reason is that it makes it easier to swallow complex concepts. But are Americans inherently more stupid than the rest of the world? Not likely...