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...kind of policy Carter is pursuing can only succeed if he does more than, in the Journal's words, "trim the fingernails of the federal budget." But budget cuts deep enough to satisfy business would come at too high a human cost and would very likely bring a depression. A new direction is necessary: Carter should impose price controls immediately. Then the task of raising output by putting Americans back to work can begin. Programs to make the nation more energy-efficient are the best way in the long run to stop inflation, by improving productivity and lessening dependence...
...order submitted in January to Miami's Bond Plumbing Supply Inc. seemed fit for King Louis XIV: a custom-made sunken bathtub, a sink with 24-karat gold-plated faucets, pastel blue toi lets, a "harvest gold" bidet with chrome-plated trim, even a portable Jacuzzi. But when Carol Cherrey, office manager and taxpayer, saw the name on the $8,934 or der, she said she "blew my stack." The deluxe fixtures were ostensibly ordered for a vocational instruction class at MacArthur South High School. Yet MacArthur, a school for 235 troubled youths, had no plumbing class...
There is plenty of room to cut and trim in Carter's bulging budget. A study by the Congressional Budget Office shows that $50 billion could be saved in the 1981 budget, and fully $544 billion over the following five years, by trimming such boondoggles as impact aid for schools, a program that dishes out tens of millions of dollars yearly to some of the richest school districts in the nation. Carter aides last week were examining potential cuts in Social Security programs, food stamps and veterans' benefits. A whopping $6.9 billion could be saved by discontinuing federal...
...Trudeau still cuts a trim, athletic figure, bounding up the marble steps to his office in the Parliament buildings or skating with his boys on the Rideau Canal (though younger members of his staff have taken to referring to him -in private, anyway-as "the old man"). While there was no rekindling of the flames of "Trudeaumania" during the campaign, he racked up an impressive personal victory in his home district of Mount Royal in Montreal. He won a total of nearly 36,000, or 82% of the vote. Even before election day, his hapless Tory opponent, Harry Bloomfield, conceded...
...outlying parking areas. It did not work. Hundreds were stranded for hours in the subfreezing cold, miles from events, motels or parking lots. To help out where needed, the committee set up a cadre of volunteers from the surrounding area. Garbed in bright blue snowsuits with yellow trim, they did their earnest best to make visitors feel welcome. The state police took their responsibilities so seriously that they hauled away an illegally parked car belonging to Art Devlin, vice president of the Lake Placid Organizing Committee, and another belonging to the FBI. Indeed, the citizens sometimes out-organized themselves...