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...several of the presidents said the policy change was probably a wise...
Raising taxes to make it seem they're doing something about the deficit may be a wise (if cynical) political move, but it does little to combat the mess into which the budget process has descended. As the deficit-reduction package of 1982 showed, increases in revenue are rarely used to combat the deficit--they usually end up as a justification for more pork-barrel spending...
...feisty, circumspect, keen and nurturing. "It is always an interesting fight," says Fisher, "for the remaining chair in the musical chairs of who is going to get the focus in the room. But she always gets the chair because she is the mother." Fisher tilts toward her grandmother's wise grandeur and is currently at work on her third novel called -- what else? -- Delusions of Grandma...
...Bissinger's book has stirred so much outrage -- and so many threats -- that last week he canceled a promotional visit to the town. "People here took the book as an attack on their values," said Eric Smalley, manager of the B. Dalton bookstore. "I believe the author is wise to stay away." Some Odessans viewed the book not only as an attack on the city but also as a possible contributing cause of another catastrophe: on Sept. 20 the University Interscholastic League executive committee found the Panthers guilty of conducting preseason workouts and banned the team from the 1990 state...
...August 1988 neither regulatory forbearance nor political clout could disguise Silverado's woes: the company announced a $200 million loss. Wise began publicly looking for a buyer to bail out the company. Silverado was insolvent, and Bush glibly announced that he was resigning because his father had been nominated as the Republican presidential candidate. On Oct. 24 the Colorado regulators notified their federal counterparts in Topeka that the hemorrhaging Silverado would be shut down at the end of the month...