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...grow from $240 million to $509 million in eight years. He approved a 190% increase in state support of California's public colleges and hiked state aid to local schools by 119%. Many California educators now rate Reagan's successor, Jerry Brown, as more tightfisted and tougher to deal with than Reagan...
Stung by his success with what the music biz still calls "middle-of-the-road" audiences, Billy Joel, an excellent balladeer and misplaced Broadway composer, set out to make an album that rocked harder and hung tougher. Although one of the tunes here is called It 's Still Rock and Roll to Me, the music sounds like Broadway without a book, and the lyrics are full of the backhand arrogance that Joel mistakes for true rock spirit. Midway through Side 2, Billy backs off a little and decides to flash his cosmopolitan credentials by trying a lyric in French...
...their firm dumped harmful chemicals into a river feeding a municipal water supply. But business lobbyists persuaded the drafters to remove the most stringent measures. The Department of Justice managed to get some of the provisions restored, but only in diluted form. Even so, the Senate bill is tougher than the House version, which, according to Justice, now contains fewer sanctions involving white-collar crime than does existing...
Some friends wonder if he is spiritually and intellectually capable of performing that tougher role. Carter clings to his conviction that there must be a way through prayer and good will to let the cup pass...
...first shriveling credit lines. The Industrial National Bank of Rhode Island is limiting the use of its $1.3 billion corporate loan portfolio by curbing lending for so-called nonproductive purposes, such as a company buying back its own stock or shopping for acquisitions. One Georgia bank takes an even tougher line. Says Willy Alexander, vice president of Atlanta's Citizens and Southern National Bank: "We have absolutely discouraged borrowing for bricks and mortar, heavy machinery or inventory buildup." Already hard hit by the housing slump, the forest products giant Georgia-Pacific announced a 25% reduction in capital expenditures rather...