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...caller was David Brockway, staff chief of the Joint Committee on Taxation, relaying bad news: the numbers would not balance. If new projections of slower growth in the economy were correct, the tax increase on business would be only $114 billion, and the cut for individuals would be $131 billion, leaving a $17 billion gap. Packwood and Rostenkowski quickly agreed on how to raise $7 billion, but deadlocked on the remaining $10 billion. "It's a blow to us to have been so close and yet so far," said Rostenkowski as they broke late Thursday night. "He and I almost...
...when so threatened, immediately draw one's attention to the others in the community and to their staff members, all of whom the sisters prize: Carol Heiney-Gonzalez, Maryanne Sabatino, Anna Nalevanko, Anita Cleary, John Kixmiller, who runs the after- school program at P.S. 314; Tom Randall; Julie Stein Brockway, who leads the theater workshop; Diana Hart-Johnson, the woman preparing the Nutcracker show...
They include, in addition to Iacocca, William Fine, head of the cosmetics firm Frances Denney, and Robert Brockway, the boss of Olympus Camera. Fashion Photographer Richard Avedon took a picture of Iacocca that has already begun appearing in ads in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal...
Practicing in Jail. After the OEO grant expired in 1969, an energetic new dean, Brian Brockway, now 37, kept the school on its new tack. Instead of OEO stipends, the students earned course credits for their services to the poor. "There's more to a legal education than just knowing how to operate within the system," says Brockway. "A good lawyer should know the methods by which the system can be changed...
...extent their interests clash with mine because I have to keep the docket moving along. These fellows will take up the court's time arguing over a principle. It costs $100,000 a year to run a municipal court. We can't be arguing over principles." If Brockway and his youngsters have their way, however, Detroit courts will be hearing such arguments with increasing frequency...