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...July I comes and goes, and the school is still short of funds, they will have to scale down the initial building plans or petition the Corporation for an extension. Either way, administrators will be forced to trim their dreams, and the current site, by their accounts already bursting at the seams, will have to bear the burden a bit longer. "Elements of the program will suffer, but the world won't come to an end." Allison says, adding current programs will not suffer...
...recovery came from Washington as the White House, increasingly alarmed about the disarray in financial markets, tried to restore confidence among moneymen. President Reagan abruptly abandoned his pledge to spare Social Security retirement payments from the budget ax; he proposed reductions in old-age and other benefits that will trim Social Security payouts by 10% and shave $46 billion in the next five years. Lawrence Kudlow, chief economist at the Office of Management and Budget, promised that more spending cuts and deferrals were on the way and hinted that the Administration might scale back slightly its request for outsized increases...
...rambling 140-acre estate near Montgomery, complete with a 19-room Georgian mansion, a swimming pool, stables and magnolia trees. The bright red hair that earned him the nickname of his youth is now sparse and streaked with gray, but the strapping, 6-ft. 2-in. Blount keeps trim with frequent tennis matches and ski trips to Vail, Colo. On jaunts to visit construction sites around the U.S., he sometimes personally pilots one of his company's three de Havilland jets...
...into a book chronicling the physical ailments of previous White House occupants. He also met with eight Governors-seven Republicans and one Democrat, Forrest James of Alabama-for nearly an hour. One participant, Richard Thornburgh of Pennsylvania, said later: "The President in my view looks in fighting trim...
...Quietly . . .or Else. However, owing mainly to the international investment deals he packages, Agnew is believed to have a hefty in come. He owns a condominium in a waterfront high-rise in Ocean City, Md., and a lavish home in Palm Springs, Calif., where he surfaces sporadically to trim his golf handicap...