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...page document Howe had extracted from its battered red case: Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's severely austere new budget, which she insisted "laid a solid foundation for sustained revival of the British economy." Ignoring urgent pleas for relief from both industry and trade unions, Thatcher asked Britons to swallow yet another dose of her bitter, monetarist medicine. "This government," she insisted, "has taken the wise and moral course, and I will challenge anyone who takes the contrary view." The new budget will raise government revenue by $7.7 billion-in part by imposing heavy new excise taxes on beer, liquor...
...star-shock never subsided. I could hardly swallow, let alone speak, the first time I had dinner with a very friendly red-suspendered Dan Rather. On the other hand, I was not all that surprised when I bumped into Andy Rooney one day and found him sporting a pink shower cap with his suit...
...even a year ago, and Polish experts presume that the decision to permit Baranczak's departure reflects the pattern of liberalization sparked by the country's labor unrest. Still, as Fanger noted, letting Baranczak take his message to Harvard "must have been a bitter pill for the government to swallow...
Harvard officials speculated that the Polish authorities' apparent change of attitude may have come out of liberalizing efforts of labor and intellectual unrest in Poland, although Fanger noted that Baranczak, because of his extensive dissident activity, "was one of the hardest pills for [the government] to swallow...
During the meeting, the affable Kaseman was asked whether he believed Jesus Christ is God. "No," he responded, "God is God." Kaseman was accepted by a majority. But that answer stirred deep alarm in some delegates. In recent years conservative Presbyterians have had to swallow a fair degree of doctrinal flexibility, but they interpreted Kaseman's response as a denial of the deity of Christ. The conservatives filed a protest and eventually the Permanent Judicial Commission, the national supreme court of the 2.5 million-member United Presbyterian Church, bounced the case back to the local presbytery for further examination...