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That was no mean feat, considering the budget's built-in escalators. Those now receiving Social Security payments, for example, will automatically get about $15 billion next year. Carter has also authorized a 5% real increase in the Pentagon's budget, hiking military spending from $138 billion to $157 billion...
...Sotheby's last summer. The company announced that it had entered into an agreement with Citibank, the second largest banking organization in the U.S., to assist the bank's millionaire clients in acquiring artworks for investment. Though Sotheby's insists that the arrangement contains sufficient built-in checks and balances to dispel any suspicion of conflict of interest, many people in the art world are skeptical of any deal whereby an auction house may in effect end up supporting its own market. Says David Bathurst, Christie's New York president: "Using art as an investment scares...
...their country's problems, Americans obviously need occasional relief from national worries so that they can at least try to enjoy their lives as individuals. Yet it has become harder and harder for people to find anything to do or use that does not come with some built-in anxiety. The trouble is that every-where they turn these days, one thing or another is posted with the red flag of danger, if not with the skull and crossbones of mortal horror...
White: "I just know that there is a built-in factor of people not knowing what Kennedy stands for." Asks a White House aide: "What happens when people realize that Kennedy's voting record is more liberal than George McGovern...
They called for reduction of their work week, a built-in cost-of-living clause and coverage for a complete health care plan...