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...Some of the other savings came from selling off federal assets and various financial sleights of hand. And the summiteers squandered a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity -- a major financial crisis during a nonelection year -- to confront the biggest sacred cow of all: Social Security. Few dared even to whisper those words...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Turkey And Trimmings | 11/30/1987 | See Source »

...poor, poor people are upset and mad and teed off about the high rate of taxes and the high rate of sewer fees," declared Councilor Alfred E. Vellucci last night--prompting a colleague to approach the press table and whisper, "Is there an election this year...

Author: By Martha A. Bridegam, | Title: Campaign Rhetoric Bashes Universities | 9/29/1987 | See Source »

...coaxing trees, flowers, grass, birds and squirrels to coexist on top of and among security alarms, underground cables and rooms. The battle is constant, but he loves it. There is Grover Cleveland's Acer palmatum dissectum (Japanese spiderleaf) and Franklin Roosevelt's Tilia cordata, the little-leaf linden. They whisper and exult in the breezes and hunker down for the storms. They make grand harmony. "No politics here," says Williams, who moves among the 66 species of trees, pruning, feeding and enticing life to its fullest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Eighteen Acres of Harmony | 9/28/1987 | See Source »

...around in love or else in search of it. On a brilliant Sunday afternoon in spacious Lenin Park, a steel band lays down a lilting beat and khaki- uniformed officials wave their caps in time to the music. Yet beneath the infectious island rhythms, there is a sad, steady whisper. "If there were no sea between us and the U.S.," says a musician under his breath, "this place would be empty tomorrow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cuba Whispers Behind the Slogans | 9/21/1987 | See Source »

...ignore it completely (Kemp and Pete du Pont). Characteristically, Bush is somewhere in the middle. Recently, the Vice President timidly allowed, "If all the domestic spending has been cut that can be cut, then and only then would ((I)) consider the other alternative." That alternative, too frightening to whisper aloud, is higher taxes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Unreal Campaign | 9/14/1987 | See Source »

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