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Such proposals are beginning to draw grass-roots support. Last month a group of 300 associations and businesses formed a Washington-based organization called the Coalition of Americans for Privatization. It will ; lobby in Congress for measures to trim the Government's activities. Says John Albertine, the coalition's head: "Our Founding Fathers had no idea that the Government they created would be running a number of private business operations on the side. With our deficits so high and with the performance of these Government-run enterprises so dismal, I think it's time the Federal Government stopped moonlighting...
...budget would raise fees for using the national parks, impose a $10-per-angler licensing fee for fishing in the ocean, trim benefits under the G.I. bill, cut federal support for the Interstate Highway system and require able-bodied welfare recipients to engage in some "work-related activity" to continue receiving federal help...
...budget deficits that have become a Washington way of life over the past two decades. Right now. Congress knows that the deficit must be cut, but naturally dreads deciding on its own whose funds should be cut. So the legislators left it to U.S. Comptroller General Charles Bowsher to trim $11.7 billion from this year's budget. Then beginning with the fiscal-1987 budget that Reagan must submit next week, the restrictions become automatic. Discretion, choice, judgment--all are subordinated to the rule imposed by Gramm-Rudman that the deficit must be reduced in $36 billion increments each year until...
...from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., a steady stream of men can be seen entering and leaving this room. When they go in, the men have a vaguely scruffy look and finger a thick stubble of half-grown beard. When they go out, however, they are smooth and trim, clean-shaven, and smelling faintly of lotions and creams. This is the Shaving Research Room, the living heart of the world's largest razor blade factory: Gillette Corp.'s World Shaving Headquarters in South Boston...
Moving from his feet to his head, O'Neill then stops next door at 2384 Mass Ave. for a quick trim by barber Frank Manelli. "He waits for his turn just like anybody else," says Manelli, who was sixteen when O'Neill first ran for congress...