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...Wall Street and low-paid reviewing for a weekly called Idle Hours. He cleaved to his fiction bottle and dreams of success. "On my weekly payday, having written five reviews and collected thirty dollars," he writes, "I'd shine my rotting shoes, press my crotchstinking, shinyassed pants, trim the fray from shirt and jacket, knot up my best greasy tie, pour down a tall wine or two for ballast, then subway uptown to The Forum of the Twelve Caesars or The Four Seasons for one costly drink amid the greatest elegance available to me, burn for one brief moment...
...taxpaying, working people are to be asked to make sacrifices, then the rich should at least be asked to pay their fair share of the tax burden. Let us trim the $4 billion in subsidies to the profit-rich oil companies. Let us shut off the tax shelters in which the wealthy hide their earned income. And let us cut out deductions for three-martini business lunches that are nothing more than food stamps for the rich...
...slower to warm to friendly relations. The choice of Ben Elissar, 48, a close political ally of Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and a former high intelligence official, to be Israel's first Ambassador to Egypt seemed hardly reassuring at the outset. Eventually, however, Ben Elissar, with his trim pharaonic beard, became a familiar figure in Cairo. Gratified by the change, he observes: "An Israeli in Egypt is not considered today with the same curiosity I sensed a year ago, when people looked at you and seemed to ask, 'Are you on the side of the angels...
Tredway flicked home his second at 15:27, intercepting a Neil Sheehy clearing pass for an unassisted, power play goal. And following a classic Greg Olson performance on a two-on-one break with Murray to trim the margin to two at 15:59, Bill Cole made it 4-1, taking a pass from Tredway, circling behind the net, and beating Whiston to the right post just 22 seconds before the end of the period...
Reagan believes profoundly that a swollen Government has now become the destroyer of prosperity, fanning inflation through endless deficits and strangling economic growth through excessive taxes. So, from now on, Government must choose to slim itself down. It must spend less, tax less, regulate less, trim rather than expand social programs and turn over responsibility for many of them to states and cities. Above all, it must stop trying to guide the economy and trust the energies of private workers and businessmen to pull the nation out of the stagflation swamp...