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...Reagan presided over have bequeathed to his chosen successor a downsized presidency devoid of the resources to address long neglected domestic problems. The Bush campaign strategists -- with the candidate's active complicity -- burdened the new President with an obdurate stance on taxes. And for all of Bush's conciliatory zeal, Congress remains an enemy camp; no elected Republican President in this century has come into office faced with such lopsided Democratic majorities...
...major factor in U.S. steel's improving fortunes has been the decline of the dollar, which has made imports more expensive. But foreign competitors have trimmed costs and boosted efficiency with almost the same zeal as the U.S. mills. The resurgent Japanese steel industry has cut its work force 18% in the past three years, to 228,000. Europe's steel industry, subsidized to the tune of $57 billion since 1975, is now largely self-sufficient owing to higher productivity. Because of such moves, says Walter Williams, chairman of Bethlehem Steel, "we'll never be able to go back...
...Margaret Thatcher lacks courage. After confidently taking on the miners, the press and the teachers, the Prime Minister has announced plans to reform two of the country's most prestigious professions, medicine and law. Her proposals, the most sweeping in decades, prove that Thatcher has lost none of her zeal for leading Britain toward a more open, free-market economy...
...Bush could find himself in a Catch-22 situation. Caution could hasten the general secretary's demise, but zeal could come back to haunt the president if Gorbachev loses power...
Much of the town's energy saving can be traced to the zeal of Weston Birdsall, general manager of Osage Municipal Utilities. Looking back to 1972, when he took over the utility company, Birdsall recalls, "That's about the time OPEC reared its ugly head. We had to do something." Birdsall preached conservation door to door, offering to give every building a free thermogram, a test that pinpoints places where the most heat is escaping. More than half the town's property owners accepted the offer...