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...welcomed the company's plans. Said Carolyne Davis, chief of the Health Care Financing Administration, which directs the Medicare and Medicaid programs: "Given the country's limited health care dollars, it is important that we have medical research done in the private as well as the public sector...
...such differentiation did occur, especially at the two conventions. In San Francisco, New York Governor Mario Cuomo and Jesse Jackson elaborated the Mondale theme of Democratic inclusiveness and Government as the agent of progress. In Dallas, the Republicans ridiculed that as a negative, weakling vision. To them, the private sector is America's genius...
...teen-age unemployment rate. To President Reagan, however, the measure represented a "discredited approach to unemployment." In vetoing the bill last week, he stated, "America's unemployed youth would be better served by reducing federal spending so that more resources are available to the private sector...
This of course is nothing new Politicians, including Mondale, attempt to translate policy proposals into terms that relate directly to whatever sector of the electorate they are wooing. But what is both surprising and worrysome is that Reagan youth, especially at Harvard, are so willing to embrace what they know are superficialities: television images, fleeting moods, and pat phrases ("America is standing tall") that defy cogent analysis...
...giving 45,000 children an unexpected holiday. There were no newspapers, no television broadcasts, no mail deliveries and only intermittent telephone service. With state-operated liquor stores shuttered, restaurant wine and whisky stocks were being drained by thirsty diners. Indeed, as a strike by 11,000 government and private-sector employees crippled public services in Iceland, supplies of almost everything that makes life interesting on the edge of the Arctic Circle were disappearing faster than icicles in a spring thaw...