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...open to obvious Republican attack. Gibed White House Spokesman Larry Speakes: "We will let Walter Mondale do the talking about raising taxes. This Administration has been talking and working for three years to ease the burden of taxation on all Americans." Worst of all, from the Democrats' viewpoint, the party will appear to be preaching fear of the future, and that is scarcely as appealing in the voting booth as Reagan's all-weather optimism...
...Ronald Reagan, it was a rare change of heart on a matter of principle, and an even more uncommon public acknowledgment of that about-face. "Some may feel that my decision is at odds with my philosophical viewpoint that state problems should involve state solutions," the President said to a high school audience last week in Oradell, N.J. However, he went on, "in a case like this, where the problem is so clear-cut, then I have no misgivings about a judicious use of federal inducements to encourage the states to get moving...
...results from the analysis-of-argument test were striking. The scores of seniors were significantly higher than those of freshmen, especially on the second part of the test, when they were asked to reverse their positions. Seniors were more adept at mounting effective and logical arguments supporting an alien viewpoint...
...believe that the show provides an exception to the familiar lament that television news too superficial. They believe that "Nightline" at once both "entertains and educates," says Donald say, the Chief Judge of the 8th Circuit of the United States Court of Appeals, who recently appeared with Koppel on "Viewpoint," a semi-regular "Nightline" variation that examines the press...
...From the viewpoint of the Reagan Administration, the timing could hardly have been worse. White House officials believe that the higher interest rates could clobber key industries like housing and autos just as the President heads toward the November election. Earlier this year, homebuilding appeared to be booming. In February, new housing starts reached an annual rate of 2.2 million. But in March, after interest rates began to take off, housing starts fell to 1.6 million, the sharpest monthly decline in 30 years...