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A country's onetime Chief Executive is mired in a widening scandal that has already claimed several top aides and threatens to force his own resignation. It is a tale of taps on journalists' phones, of a secret tape recording of a political discussion, apparent conspiracies and controversy...
Many of the ornaments came in the form of amendments to the continuing-spending resolution and gas-tax bill. Senator Howell Heflin, an Alabama Democrat, tucked in a $1 million appropriation for channel-widening at the Franklin Ferry Bridge in his home state. John Melcher, Democratic Senator from Montana, hooked...
> Congressional pay raises are long overdue; salaries have risen only 5.5%, to $60,662, in the past five years, while the cost of living rose 62%. More important, top Government officials, whose salaries are linked to those of Congressmen, have also had their pay capped, widening the salary gap between...
Generally considered a free-market economist, Feldstein has criticized supply-side extremists who promised that the 1981 tax cuts would trigger sudden growth in the economy. In practical terms, he is also keenly concerned about the widening size of the federal budget deficit, and favors a cutback in Social Security...
The hand does not yet have the stamina and control it once had, but the pianist is convinced that he will soon be performing Beethoven. Delighted to be playing with ten fingers again, he is not altogether unhappy that he had only five for so long. "There is no doubt...