Word: voodoos
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...overwhelmingly Catholic Puerto Rico, such a bizarre ceremony, with its overtones of voodoo, seemed somewhat out of place. In fact, its significance was as much political as religious. In a for mer pantyhose factory nearby, dozens of party representatives were conducting a painstaking ballot-by-ballot recount of all 1.6 million votes cast in the island's gubernatorial election. The race between Governor Carlos Romero Barceló and his main challenger, Rafael Hernández Colón, had been so close that some of the Governor's more zealous supporters concluded that a ceremonial appeal for divine...
...shows with ringing defenses of Reagan against Jimmy Carter's attacks-and indeed against the criticism that Bush himself had voiced during the Republican primaries. Asked about his charge that Reagan's plan for a 30% cut in income tax rates over the next three years constituted "voodoo economics," Bush blandly replied that Reagan had changed his economic policies (true, but not about the depth of tax cuts). As Election Day neared, some of Bush's aides griped privately that Reagan had run a bumbling campaign; one grumbled that if Bush had been the nominee, he would...
...record on the economy, but Reagan would be worse. To argue that one can slash taxes (Reagan supports the Kemp-Roth proposal), increase defense spending and balance the budget strikes us, as Reagan's own running mate (and a terrifying personality in his own right) has said, as "voodoo economics." Where Carter has consistently supported labor, Reagan still questions the validity even of the minimum wage. Reagan would not stop with trimming domestic programs; he has promised to eliminate some agencies (the Departments of Energy' and Education, for example) that Carter has established...
...likely perpetuate the musical momentum of the old New Wave for a while. Other projects, planned or underway, include Times Square (promised as New Wave Saturday Night Fever, argh, by producer Robert Stigwood), and Urgh: A Music War, concerts of Magazine, Pere Ubu, X, Dead Kennedys, and Wall of Voodoo, the new New Wave...
...presidential challenger. No more than $4 billion could be saved that way. Until Reagan gives us chapter and verse on what programs he will cut and by how much, his balanced-budget pledge is no more than a pious hope. It's a little cruel to call this voodoo economics, as George Bush apparently did. I'd call it Indian-rope-trick economics or Houdini economics...