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...campaign issue, the nation's huge budget deficit, the questioners were unable to pin the candidates down on just how they can reduce it and still acquire the military weapons and social programs they support. Dukakis repeated his unpersuasive solution of tougher tax enforcement. He stressed welfare reforms that would put more poor people to work as a way to cut spending and simultaneously bring in more tax revenue. Bush argued that "we've got to get the Democrats' Congress under control" to hold down spending...
...L.A.T.C.'s Bushnell readily concedes an inspirational debt to Davidson, and to Joseph Papp, whose Public Theater in Manhattan is a similar urban complex. But Bushnell has fashioned an institution all its own, against perhaps tougher odds than faced either of the others. Like the Public, the L.A.T.C. tends to excuse artistic lapses on the grounds of good intentions: its present offering of a black South African tract, Bopha!, performed by the authors, is exuberant but crude. The other show now running, however -- the debut of Kingfish by local writer Marlane Meyer -- is an adroitly staged, intelligently acted...
...have a chance to do very well this weekend," Mulvehal said, "though, the competition will be tougher...
...They were much tougher than we expected them to be," Co-Captain Katie McAnaney said. "We didn't expect it to be so tight...
...full strength, NBC will have a force of 1,100 staffers. At their disposal: 1,000 video monitors, 100 cameras, 154 tape machines and two pagoda- shaped anchor booths. Working out logistics with the South Koreans was made tougher by language and cultural differences, though NBC assuaged its staffers with tours of the Demilitarized Zone, pizza runs and egg days (bring your own eggs and have them cooked to order American-style...