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...President appears ready to try the other tack. Baker has been authorized to begin quiet negotiations with the Budget Committee to push the defense increase closer to 7%-which is the consensus among moderates in Congress of what a generous level would be-before the final 1984 spending package is approved. What was intended as a campaign to educate the public about defense spending turned out to be an education for the White House on political realities...
...Ford is extending the life of its Victoria and Grand Marquis models, which were to have been phased out this year, and Chrysler is keeping its big New Yorker and producing large cars 16% faster than it did four months ago. Chairman Lee Iacocca, however, wants the Government to tack an additional 20? onto the federal gas tax to encourage conservation, even though there is more profit in bigger cars. Says Harold Sperlich, president of Chrysler's North American car business: "We are giving people the wrong signal, and hastening the day when the next oil crisis will arrive...
...afraid to reject the slogans of the past to create the solutions for the future. He is the only one who at this early stage has published a book, and A New Democracy A Democratic, Vision for the 1980's and Beyond racks of this pseudo intellectual tack...
...businesses hired just one more worker. The President did not take into account the fact that three-quarters of these businesses are small owner-operated enterprises, most with receipts of less than $25,000 a year, that could not afford more employees, or use them. Taking a more realistic tack, Howard Baker has promised that the new Congress will take up a jobs measure similar to the one Reagan threatened to veto...
...have been as bad as she says she was, but at Dago Frank's Alberta Hunter learned about singing and everything else. "There was a woman there, Tack Annie, who was one of the world's greatest pickpockets. She looked like a horse with a hat on, the ugliest woman I ever saw in my life! The girls taught me how to look after myself so that I was hip when fellows would come to me and tell me they were going to buy me clothes and make me a prostitute. I could laugh...