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...estate and challenged us as trustees to prove that we always had made profitable investments for him. That we couldn't do." At the ranch, Reagan's 50 steers are about all that the land can support. Wilson notes that, though the cattle are not profitable, they trim the grass and reduce the fire hazard...
...because the memos, once written, immediately become proof that they were busy." Besides, if they actually did their jobs and, say, abolished poverty, they might then be out of a job. Bureaucrats show amazing energy, however, when it comes to protecting their turf against budget cutters. If ordered to trim, they invariably slash essential services so that howls of protest will force the cuts to be restored...
...Soviets meet their energy needs? Certainly not through conservation by consumers. Leonid Brezhnev and other Soviet leaders have called repeatedly for conservation, but there is not much fat to trim in the consumer sector. A nation that has only one automobile for every 42 people (the U.S. has one for every two people) and does most of its long-distance hauling by rail cannot cut back much on gasoline consumption. Some savings might be possible in factories, since Soviet industry is notoriously wasteful of energy, largely because the government sells energy to industries at low rates, which invites managers...
...urge those called upon to register to refuse, and to refuse loudly. The arguments against registration are sound--it is militarily foolish, coercive, and motivated in large part by President Carter's re-election campaign. Registration now will trim by only a handful of days the time it takes to induct Americans--on that ground alone even former Calif. Gov. Ronald Reagan opposes the plan. As a sign of "national solidarity" in the wake of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, draft registration is a part of Carter's dangerously confrontational stance of reviving the cold war. And as a part...
...visit he had delighted in spinning through the canyons in somebody else's Mercedes, gearing down to consider the more outlandish mansions, each garden perfect. He liked to wander through the unbelievably opulent men's shops on Rodeo, startling the prissy clerks.by bargaining. He enjoyed the tanned, trim, middle-aged producers on health diets, toting scripts to market in Gucci attaché cases, even as their East Side grandfathers had once carried sewing machines on their shoulders. They strutted into the Polo Lounge or La Scala or Dominic's, bound in safari suits, blissfully playing the room...