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Even with this concerted public relations offensive, the Administration will have serious trouble salvaging what it considers to be an acceptable defense budget in Congress. House Democrats last week passed their own version of a budget for fiscal 1984, which begins in October. Depending on how inflation is calculated, the Democratic plan raises defense spending by about 2% to 4%, compared with the more than 10% after-inflation boost that Reagan wants...
...Democratic leadership used various parliamentary maneuvers to ensure that the budget plan it had worked out would be considered as a whole; the only amendment they would permit was a substitute of Reagan's proposed tax and spending package. But no Republican was willing to introduce the Reagan version of the budget on the floor for fear of being politically tainted by its large deficit ($188.8 billion) and whopping increases in defense. The G.O.P. members preferred instead to let the Democratic proposal, which calls for tax hikes of $30 billion and deficits of $174.5 billion, be the focus of debate...
...innovating a product that has essentially been around for more than 100 years. Still, the company is hoping Bos and his teammates--who have similar bikes--will prove that even so venerable a contraption can be made new. If all goes well, consumers will be able to purchase a version of the bike for themselves for a mere 4,000 euros (a bit more than $6,100)--wheels not included...
...original version of this article misspelt the name of Isokazu Kubota...
...Iraqis and what they are going through, even though their stories are not always heard. Collins encouraged the demonstrators, “Fight the good fight. Keep it up. Remember, it took a long time to end the Vietnam War.”A band played a modified version of the 1960s song “I Feel Like I’m Fixin’ to Die.” People in the crowd sang along to the refrain–“And it’s one, two, three, what we fighting...