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...Reagan's original budget proposals. This anomaly seems inevitable once again. To most members, the Pentagon cuts-or rather the scaled-down spending increases-seem puny in comparison with the deep and genuine reductions in civilian spending that the White House will ask. Current plans are to whack outlays a total of $169 billion below earlier projections over the next three years-$34 billion in fiscal 1986 alone. That would involve freezes on such programs as food stamps and welfare, reductions in popular programs like Medicaid and veterans' health benefits and complete elimination of general revenue-sharing grants...
Simons: And we don't want norms. There's no such thing as norms. Crimson: Well now that Professor Nesson has opened himself up for attack on his flanks, maybe I'll let Mr. Simons and Mr. Lewis take a whack at giving some directions in which they would like to see the courts move in this area...
...These same people will sit down to a meal of steak, French fries, a salad drowned in dressing, and pie à la mode. Cholesterol per se does not cause heart disease. Rather, a high cholesterol level may be a symptom that one's life-style is out of whack. Our focus should not be on eggs but on making appropriate changes in our lifestyles...
...athletic field this quest for being the best becomes a matter of winning titles, championships, and trophies. In athletics, a full trophy case is the symbol of success. To get trophies, tennis players whack thousands of balls per week in practice sessions at Palmer Dixon, swimmers undergo punishing workouts twice daily from October to March and distance runners sometimes run until they wretch...
Even with all these plans, the deficit would remain frighteningly large. The military-spending reductions and partial freeze on civilian programs, in combination with social-spending cuts that Reagan still hopes to wring out of Congress, would whack about $40 billion out of expenditures in the next fiscal year. But that would still mean spending roughly $175 billion more than the Government could hope to collect in taxes. That deficit would be barely below the $180 billion to $185 billion now expected in fiscal...