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...Although health authorities are warning area residents to stay out of the midday sun, joggers still pack city parks at noon. Golfers also show up on the courses. But they are playing with a new rule: the ball can be moved without penalty if it falls into a crack opened in fairways by the heat and drought...
Miller does have a club: if Congress and the White House will not cooperate, the Federal Reserve will have to crack down so hard on money supply, and push interest rates so high, that there really will be a recession. Characteristically, he put it to Taber in tones of promise rather than threat: "The Fed fits into this model in a rather selfish way. Any economic strategy that works toward lessening inflation will inevitably lessen the pressure on the central bank," and allow it to put out enough money to promote his cherished 4% growth rate...
...owner for 25 years of L'Aiglon restaurant in Manhattan, and one of those beleaguered by the President's threat to crack down on taxdeductible, expense-account lunches, I have a question: Who paid for those Margaritas? I would have been happy...
Powell should have quit while he was behind. He tried a tasteless crack about a William Safire column "saying that Bob Strauss has been inflation czar for three days and nothing was any cheaper. Bob said that wasn't true," reported Powell, who went on to quote Strauss as asking: "What about the Pulitzer Prize?" (Safire had just won one.) "I like that, Jody," one listener shot back, and Powell riposted bitterly: "Well, then, that's the first thing this Administration has done that you've liked." Powell also mock apologized for attacking what he called...
...Palestine Liberation Organization, which claims the allegiance of 90% of the estimated 14,000 Palestinian fighters in Lebanon, moved quickly to assure the U.N. that it deplored the incident and would crack down on the group responsible for it. Among the surgeons attending Salvan was Dr. Fathi Arafat, Yasser's brother; one of Salvan's first visitors was the P.L.O. boss himself, bearing flowers...