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...pockets of low and middle income taxpayers but instead in the bulging wallets of corporate executives and stockholders. Residential property owners would receive only 57 per cent of the benefits of the tax cuts, with the balance going to industry. And in older, poorer cities like Cambridge, which largely depend on industry for their tax base, only 43 per cent of the total reductions would benefit residential homeowners...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: A Modest Proposition | 11/3/1980 | See Source »

Liberals, in general, die hard. Like rats learnning to love poisoned cheese, these mavericks seem to have turned their unorthodoxy into something of an advantage. But the conservative winds are blowing stronger than usual this year; as professional pols always say, the outcome will depend on the weather

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: An III Wind Doth Blow | 11/3/1980 | See Source »

...Lorain-Elyria Journal, "A Great Newspaper You Can Depend On," endorsed Ronald Reagan in its Sunday edition. "Forget who belongs to which party and all that. Forget the campaign cliches that play on our emotions. Let's face it. The country is in sad economic shape...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Pride Grows With Progress | 11/3/1980 | See Source »

...beginning of the debate, moderator Howard K. Smith turned to the Music Hall audience and sardonically announced: "Welcome to Las Vegas on the lake, where a lot may depend on one throw of the dice...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Carter, Reagan Square Off in Debate | 10/29/1980 | See Source »

...basis of debate is argument. But this quality was strangely missing in the Reagan-Anderson debates of last month and the Carter-Ford debates of 1976. The problem lies in the fact that we depend on a panel of journalists to prod the candidates into discussion. No journalists should be present at Presidential debates. We should let the candidates tell each other when they are hypocritical, inaccurate or misleading...

Author: By Michael Stein, | Title: Face to Face | 10/14/1980 | See Source »

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