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...ADMINISTRATION has raised hypocrisy to a new political art form, so perhaps Ronald Reagan's civil rights policies should come as no surprise. While the President preaches laissez-faire in the economic arena, his Administration has worked vigorously in the courts to undo state policies benefiting minorities...
...same time, De la Madrid is expected to undo quietly some of the excesses of his predecessor's final days in office. While respecting López Portillo's decision to take over the country's banks, he may try to divest the state of nonfinancial enterprises controlled by the banks that were also swept up in the nationalization move. In his inaugural address De la Madrid said that the government would support the "legitimate rights and incentives" of "responsible" entrepreneurs. The statement was seen as an endorsement of private enterprise, although De la Madrid also insisted...
Cosell must have been there to signify television. Ali was definitely the symbol of fighters who do not retire. What Singer Wayne Newton represented was unclear, perhaps Las Vegas. "It's a great thrill to be here tonight," Newton said, bouncing into the ring, resisting the impulse to undo his tie. Maybe Newton's part had to do with something Leonard once said...
...station. By then, however, inertia had set in. Bills to transfer control died in committee. Finally last year, Congress passed a bill, as Moynihan put it, "to return the building to its use before Congress began fumbling with it." It authorizes the Government to spend $69 million more to undo what it did. Another $9 million has been approved for roof repairs. If the rusting parking garage ever opens, each of its 1,200 spaces will have cost an estimated $62,500. But the plan, in keeping with President Reagan's free-market philosophy, depends on getting private developers...
...have seen our country suffer from the policies initiated by President Reagan in economics, in foreign policy, in some social programs. He has undone important accomplishments not only of me and other Democratic Presidents but of his Republican predecessors. Reagan and James Watt, his Interior Secretary, have tried to undo much of the progress made in environmental quality dating from Abraham Lincoln to Richard Nixon. It is grievously damaging. The budget deficits that Reagan will accumulate in four years, while claiming to be a fiscal conservative, exceed the total deficits of all the peacetime years