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Neustadt said Porter will play a key role at the Kennedy School as on academic with more than six years of high-level experience in government. "It's the kind of work we hope some of our people will aspire to and do," he said...
...Secretary of the Treasury, Washington insiders applauded the move despite his relative lack of experience in economic and monetary matters. In his four years as White House chief of staff, Baker was a quick study who until the last few months thrived on the competitiveness and artistry of high-level politics...
...meeting ended with an agreement for further high-level talks to be overseen by Secretary of State George Shultz and his Japanese counterpart, Foreign Minister Shintaro Abe. While these steps may not be able to alleviate the boeki masatsu, the genial summit may at least help reduce domestic political pressures on both Reagan and Nakasone...
...Governors' ire was directed at an unwelcome Christmas gift from the Federal Government. After a two-year study, the three states were selected last week by the Department of Energy as the most promising places in which to bury 40,000 tons of high-level radioactive wastes beginning in 1998. They were the unhappy winners in a competition involving nine possible sites. Most of the nuclear rubbish is in the form of 12-ft.-long spent fuel rods that have been stored for nearly 30 years at the 85 power plants scattered across the U.S. The water pools used...
...spending cuts, proposed by Budget Director David Stockman, were presented to Reagan in a thick loose-leaf book. Although the details were not made public, the outlines became clear after a series of high-level White House meetings late last week. The Stockman plan would demand sacrifices from a broad range of citizens in order to uphold Reagan's campaign pledge not to raise taxes, cut Social Security or countenance much slowdown in the U.S. military buildup...