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...White House staff should be reduced. Four hundred are simply too many people to perform what should be the staff's basic functions: presenting the President with impartially organized information and seeing that his wishes are clearly communicated. Instead, the swollen staff tends both to insulate the President from the outside world and to attempt to make policy on his behalf. In addition, the White House staff has acquired unnecessary departments that exist primarily for the prestige of special interests. Examples: Hispanic Affairs, the Aging...
...took office, he decided to give the economy a boost with the monetarist methods espoused by Conservative Economist Milton Friedman. Begin gave Israelis, for the first time, the right to hold up to $3,000 in foreign currency. In his first budget, he increased spending in the already swollen public sector and, most damaging of all, provided greatly expanded credit to exporters. Israelis went on a buying spree, gleefully snapping up imported luxury items with their newly acquired dollars. The result: an inflation rate that was already an ominous 39% when Begin took office shot up to a rate that...
...played since and may be out until Christmas, although he could return as early as this weekend. Falcone limped off the ice after a crunching check during first period action at Colgate Saturday and could possibly have fractured his ankle. "It doesn't hurt but it's swollen," he said yesterday...
...head bandaged, looked like an American revolutionary. After a season of continual hard hits in the middle of the scrum, a bruise in Oberg's temple region had opened up and required stitches. A week before the New England's the stitches became infected, leaving Oberg with a nasty, swollen, pus filled abscess in the side of his head...
Culver's opponents have had several tiffs over money from outside the state--Grassley has pleaded guilty to taking NCPAC funds, but he asks, with some justification, why that's any worse than accepting cash from the coffers of Americans for Democratic Action (ADA), a group that has swollen Culver's war chest. More than his embattled liberal colleagues, Culver has refused to yield on his progressive record, insisting he's satisfied with his stand on the issues. Perhaps as a result, Iowa's election may be less of a referendum on the question of outside interference and more...