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...expensive. Reform, using money more effectively, will be the mark of this Administration." The President objected to the idea that the nation needs "some new massive government program...What we need now, rather than more government is better government. Many times the better is not the fatter, but the leaner. What I am standing for is government finding ways...to give people incentive to do more for themselves on their own without government assistance...
...years perched on the elephant's back have taught me one truth: the G.O.P. has never done a beneficial thing for ordinary folks and never will. Its basic philosophy is to let the people bite the bullet while the fat cats get fatter...
Says Washingtonian Guy Farmer, a frequent adviser to management negotiators: "We simply have a more peaceful labor scene." The standout reason is that paychecks are finally keeping ahead of inflation. In the years just before 1972, ever-fatter wage settlements negotiated by unions were all but canceled by increases in the cost of living, keeping the actual buying power of U.S. workers just about level and breeding bitter discontent in the factory. By contrast, real earnings have inched ahead about 3.2% in the past four quarters (see story, page 53). In effect, a drop in the inflation rate has made...
...Roche predicts 1972 sales of between 10.5 and 11 million units. The manufacturers plan to produce a high total of 2.4 million U.S. cars in next year's first quarter. That rate of output should eliminate the industry's traditional midwinter layoffs and create more overtime and fatter paychecks for workers...
...best part of the play is Jane's description of a production of Peter Pan she attended as a child (or was it a dream?), in which the alligator is real, and Wendy keeps getting fatter until she has to be helped around, and Tinkerbelle really dies, because the audience doesn't applaud loud enough when Peter Pan asks them to clap to show they believe in fairies. The play asks: is the fairy real? Does Jane believe in fairies? Should...