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...Ronald Reagan faces his third year. History is never a perfect guide, but there does seem to be a tide that crests in the penultimate year of a President's first term. Providence plays a part, but so do more concrete factors. A President's programs often can be clearly judged in his third year. He is known as a person, his faults uncovered, and his strengths measured. The office has an effect: after two years it has either toughened or weakened its holder. Leaders of other nations have also had time to come to conclusions about...
...Crimson Tide also lost the next week, and the week after that. One measure of Bryant's place in college football is that he is the only coach alive who could lose three straight games without failing anyone but himself. One measure of the man is that last week he fired himself...
...more mothers sought to know exactly how long he would be around to smile on their sons. A year ago, perhaps the three leading prospects in the state of Alabama all chose Auburn, and one of them scored the touchdown that brought the Tigers their first victory over the Tide in ten years...
...analysts came to town for the American Enterprise Institute's Public Policy Week and used the occasion to advocate everything from taxing Social Security benefits for high-income elderly to junking Ronald Reagan's New Federalism because it runs, says Stanford Historian David M. Kennedy, "against the tide of history." While all this was going on, Reagan was holed up in the White House, listening to his assistant Edwin Harper describe the intriguing, if intimidating, prospect that the U.S. economy was a creature that could not be managed either by Keynesian or supply-side theory...
...raise the spring quotas by about 10%, which would legitimize the cheating with a return to pre-March levels, while perhaps trimming their own output to keep the glut from growing worse. At the same time, the Riyadh government would stand ready to provide low-interest loans to help tide over financially squeezed cartel members until the world economy starts to recover and, the Saudis hope, oil sales begin to improve...