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Mathias was most effective on the Senate Judiciary Committee, where he fought off efforts to tinker with the Constitution through amendments to permit school prayer, outlaw abortion and require a balanced budget. He paid for his positions when Republicans won control of the Senate in 1980: conservatives persuaded Strom Thurmond to pass up the job as chairman of the powerful Armed Services Committee and take over Judiciary in order to block Mathias from the post. That maneuver stung Mathias and contributed to his lonely independence...
Addressing approximately 30 students in Government 1790, "U.S. Foreign Policy," Kalb said, "Gorbachev is making a major effort to inject reform into a stagnant system. He has begun to tinker with the system, but he will fail unless he can change the monopoly of power by the Party...
When he announced last January that he planned to depart at 60, NBC Chairman Grant Tinker asked that his successor be chosen from among the ranks of the network's current management. Last week it appeared that Tinker's wish would not be granted. Word began leaking that General Electric Chairman John Welch, whose desires became paramount at NBC after his electronics giant bought RCA, NBC's parent company, for $6.28 billion last December, had settled on his own man for the job. This week Welch is expected to name Robert Wright, 43, the president of GE Financial Services...
...when he joined the GE plastics group that Welch then headed. Wright is said to have been a major behind-the-scenes force in organizing the merger of GE and RCA. His background suggests a distinct change from the relaxed management style and well-established Hollywood connections of Tinker, who moved the network from the ratings basement to No. 1 during his five-year reign...
...their lowest levels in 58 years by throwing out the special breaks and deductions that have accrued over the past four decades? No way! Let the free market determine how people spend and invest their money rather than allow shills for favored industries to use the tax code to tinker with the economy? Get real! Such a drastic overhaul would amount to putting the public interest ahead of special interests -- in this case nearly every interest with enough clout to hire a lobbyist. And everybody knows the political process does not work that...