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...deal can be blocked only if both chambers reject it. So the Administration is pushing hard for approval from the full Senate, which is now scheduled to vote on the matter next week. Some of the White House lobbying has been less than subtle: in a swap for their votes, Democrat Dennis DeConcini of Arizona was informed that Reagan would not campaign against him next year, while Republican Charles Grassley of Iowa was told that his choice for U.S. Attorney back home would be quickly nominated. A more promising tactic to woo votes is the Administration's proposal...
News reports this week indicated that France may be preparing to swap a convicted Eastern-bloc spy for three prominent Soviet dissidents, including two physicists whose arrests spurred protests from Harvard faculty members...
...former interior decorator, Dayan became involved with McDonald's while decorating Ray Kroc's Des Plaines home. Kroc soon granted Dayan rights to franchise a huge area on Chicago's North side, where the Frenchman successfully peddled burgers and fries until the early 1970s. Kroc then persuaded Dayan to swap his Chicago empire for the French market. It is here where our story starts...
Just how more equitably to sort out what Arizona Governor Bruce Babbitt calls "the intergovernmental omelet of scrambled responsibilities" was the subject of much debate last week. Babbitt, a Democrat, and Tennessee's Alexander, a Republican, introduced what they termed a "swap" proposal: Washington would take over all responsibility for Medicaid, while the states would assume total fiscal control of primary and secondary education. Though the idea met with considerable enthusiasm, the conferees agreed not to advocate formally anything so drastic until its full implications could be evaluated. Instead they adopted a more general resolution, offering to accept...
...meet the most fantastic people doing couponing," says Betty Buckley, a Marietta, Ga., housewife with eight children who estimates that she saves $2,000 a year with coupons and refunds. When groups of friends gather for "swap meetings," she says, "you can be sure you all have something in common-inflation." Mary Janoyan, 33, a Troy, Mich., housewife, boasts of saving an average of $200 a month on her household budget. Says she: "If couponing and refunding were stopped tomorrow, I'd have to go some place for my withdrawal symptoms...