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...August recess. Democrat James Shannon of Massachusetts similarly tried to reopen debate on these provisions in the House and was resoundingly beaten back. His party, which for decades had dominated budget and revenue debate in the House, had to content itself with the consolation that the President would henceforth be held solely accountable for any economic problems. Intoned vanquished House Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill: "The deficit is his. The interest rates are his. Unemployment...
...White House, which a month ago corralled enough conservative Democrats on the budget vote to humiliate the House Democratic leadership. Perhaps as bad, Rostenkowski could wind up winning a hard-fought vote against the Administration-only to have his party share the blame henceforth for unsolved economic ills...
...bitter one.") None of Arshile Gorky's friends really believed he was Russian, but the name gave him some purchase on fame. It tied up with his other harmless fibs-that he had studied under Kandinsky, for instance. Above all, it solidified the impression of a romantic outsider. Henceforth, Achilles the Bitter would be seen in New York (or so he naively hoped) as an Armenian Childe Harold, a creature of exalted but conjectural origins, with no baggage but the authority of his Europeanness, no passport but modernism itself...
...which Helms serves, is Senator Charles Percy; a man with a terminal case of political meekness, Percy is no match for the baiting Helms. Majority Leader Howard Baker receives only a trifle more deference. When Baker returned from the White House recently to declare that social issues would henceforth be secondary in importance to the President's economic package, Helms brushed off the marching orders. "I'm not changing my agenda," he said last week, as a Senate committee began hearings on a bill, co-sponsored by Helms, that would effectively make abortions illegal...
...ruling dims the prospects of similar suits now pending in several other states. Henceforth, advocates of greater freedom for mental patients may have to focus on a different question: whether the Constitution, as opposed to federal statutes, gives patients a right to treatment in the least restrictive possible setting...