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...action will be required soon. What form that should take and what size it should be, whether it should be action on the tax front or job-creating measures, will have to be worked out in coming weeks. The real job is to put the economy on a sound upward path, which provides more jobs and protects us from inflation by producing more goods and services. This, in turn, will generate more revenues, which will bring us closer to a balanced budget." Is a balanced budget conceivable? Not in one year, says he, but "it certainly can be done within...
...says Astrophysicist Greenstein, "I find a certain pleasure and honor in belonging to the universe of stars, of these events that have created the materials of which the earth and I are made." It is a sentiment many can echo. The final consolation has always been, as humanity looking upward measured its own finiteness against the infinity of the stars, that it is better to have been for a season, even a moment, than not to have been at all. The stars thus are no less symbols in their newly understood mortality than they were, seemingly eternal in their courses...
...strange ailment that triggered the new concern is a disorder of the nervous system called GuÍllaÍn-Barré syndrome. Named for the French doctors who described it in 1916. it begins with paralysis in the legs and may gradually spread upward to the hands and arms and the rest of the body. Most people eventually recover (the death rate is 5%), but if the breathing muscles are seriously impaired, a respirator may be needed during the critical period. No one knows what causes the paralyzing nerve inflammation, though the syndrome seems to strike more often after...
...your article on leadership you included Elizabeth Hanford as one who had moved upward from Federal Trade Commissioner by marrying Republican Vice-Presidential Candidate Robert Dole. Marriage is not ordinarily considered a job change-upward or downward. Does her status decrease now that it appears her husband will not be the Vice President...
...skimpy budget to defeat the less colorful, pipe-smoking Spellman. As Governor, Ray is expected to pursue a generally conservative course, trimming the state budget and considering an income tax to replace other levies if the need arises. Predictably, she favors development of nuclear energy and revising upward the limits on the size of oil tankers on Puget Sound...