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...heavier tax load than they were in the 1970s. One reason: tax breaks that are of greatest value to the poor, including the standard deduction, personal exemptions and the earned income tax credit, have not been increased to keep pace with inflation. In addition, Social Security payroll taxes, which weigh most heavily on the working poor, have been rising steadily, from 6.13% of wages in 1980 to 6.7% this year. By 1985 the Social Security rate will...
...Hewlett-Packard may finally be finding its touch with personal computers. Next month it will introduce a battery-operated portable computer, code-named Nomad, that will weigh 8.5 Ibs. and sell for $3,000. Industry insiders are excited about the machine, which has a tilt-up flat screen and built-in software including the industry's current hit, Lotus 1-2-3, a business planning program that also produces graphs. The computer has twice the memory of Apple's hot-selling Macintosh, and is designed to connect to the IBM Personal Computer as well as to Hewlett-Packard...
...symphony orchestra, while the Post's is a jazz band. That blaring, brassy, improvisational quality is most evident in the Style section, a much imitated feature that may lead with a book review one day, take a gossipy look at Embassy Row cock tail bashes the next, then weigh in with an exhaustive account of an unknown couple throwing a party to celebrate their divorce. The section, although sometimes self-indulgent and verbose, attracts much of the best prose in the Post, especially from Columnist Henry Mitchell, Feature Writer Myra MacPherson, Book Critic Jonathan Yardley and TV Critic...
Nonetheless, tradition, propriety and a vast sense of self-importance still weigh heavily on Times editors and reporters, as does the constricting drabness of its first-section design. Although it has its share of exemplary stylists, the Times rarely achieves the aura of spontaneity and surprise that beguiles (or infuriates) readers of the Washington Post or the Boston Globe. The prose is often institutional or, in features, cloyingly cute. Admits Rosenthal: "The paper has not much humor." The staffs awareness of its power and responsibility has resulted in a high level of accuracy, although the editorial stance...
Another trouble, though, arises because in the early stages, at least, covert operations are secret. Planning for any kind of successful policy must define realistic objectives, set limits on what is to be attempted, consider whether the means available match those required, carefully weigh potential benefits against likely costs. All that is much easier to achieve when a proposal is subject to wide debate than when, even inside the Government, it can be discussed only under hush-hush conditions by a tightly limited group of officials. Sloppy planning too often slips by in those circumstances. An inordinate number of covert...