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...brilliance of Axman David Stockman, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, has dazzled the Washington Establishment and led to reports that Regan is a diminished, foundering figure. He does not seem that way. Like a wise division commander, he is moving to meld Stockman, the aggressive strike force chief, into an overall economic command structure that in the end will reflect nothing so much as the will and mind of President Ronald Reagan...
...severely austere new budget, which she insisted "laid a solid foundation for sustained revival of the British economy." Ignoring urgent pleas for relief from both industry and trade unions, Thatcher asked Britons to swallow yet another dose of her bitter, monetarist medicine. "This government," she insisted, "has taken the wise and moral course, and I will challenge anyone who takes the contrary view." The new budget will raise government revenue by $7.7 billion-in part by imposing heavy new excise taxes on beer, liquor, cigarettes and gasoline. A fifth of 70-proof Scotch whisky, for example, went up from...
...claims against 15 companies after they agreed to make cash payments totaling $550 million to consumers and the Government. But many of the biggest firms, including Exxon, Texaco and Mobil, refused to settle. In view of the new President's budget proposals, they may have been wise. Says Paul Bloom, who headed Carter's oil-price investigation: "These cutbacks would constitute a death blow to any credible effort to pursue prosecutions against major refiners...
...twiddler who can solve all six sides is known as a cubist or cubemeister. Rather than risk such status, most mortals might better heed the advice of Marc Ingenoso, a teaching assistant at the University of Wisconsin: "I think it's wise never to pick the thing...
...first morning out. Somehow it seems strange to see a Chinese restaurant in Paris, but then I think about it. "Wow," I think. "Wow, this city is a meeting place of cultures." For the moment, it escapes me that there is also a Chinese restaurant in Oshkosh, Wise...