Tax-Deductible Pleasures Of Business Spend Happily Then Cut Back
Joe Taxpayer analyzes executive perks from Super Bowl tickets to Broadway shows and argues for curbing business meal and entertainment deductions. He urges Treasury reform to cap meals and end entertainment deductions, noting the rising $1.5 billion cost and seeking fair sacrifice across the budget.
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Joe
Treasury Department
Reagan Administration
Congress
Treasury
Arts education linked to cultural growth in a high tech era
A guest editorial cites a Rand Corp study for the Getty Center arguing public schools neglect art history and aesthetics. It urges integrating arts with math and science to help children grasp culture, beauty, and meaning amid advancing technology.
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Getty Center For Education In the Arts
Los Angeles
Rand Corp
Getty Center
Lani Lattin Duke
Chesterton
Rand
The
St. Louis Globe- Democrat
Sandinistas and Red Alliances Echo in Central America
The piece argues Nicaragua's sandinista government is Soviet Cuban backed and accuses U.S. Democrats of misguided Vietnam comparisons. It contends USSR and Havana influence threatens regional stability while U.S. policy shifts under Carter and the Sandinistas fuel a broader geopolitical clash.
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Nicaragua
Iowa
Massachusetts
John F. Kerry
Edward J. Markey
Vietnam
America
Ngo Dinh Diem
United States
Daniel Ortega
Fidel Castro
Moscow
U.S
Ronald Reagan
Honduras
Hanoi
Ho Chi Minh City
Havana
Cuba
Soviet Union
China
Ortega
Nguyen van Thieu
South Vietnam
Congress
Germany
Washington
Jimmy Carter
Somoza
Central America
White House
Kerry
Corrie ten Boom and Bitburg echo forgiveness in history
The piece reflects on reconciliation after World War II, citing Corrie ten Boom’s family and Ravensbruck, and contrasts forgiving with condoning as President Reagan’s Bitburg visit sparks a discussion of healing. It anchors the narrative in survivor testimony and postwar reckoning.
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Reagan
Bitburg
West Germany
Bergen-Belsen
Haarlem
Holland
Netherlands
Corrie Ten Boom
Corrie
Betsie
Ravensbruck
Ten Boom
Jerusalem
Germany
Munich
Fraulein
Jeanette Clift George
Derby Visit Highlights Georgia Horseracing Hope
Louisville report recounts lobbyist Jack Smith pressing Georgia legislators to allow horseracing. A Georgia vet tells of community backlash after endorsing racing, noting tax and job potential, church suspicions, and a wish for Governor Harris to end opposition. Joe Frank Horse joked as a possible winner.
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Louisville
Jack Smith
Georgia
Atlanta
Joe Frank Harris
Augusta
Churchill Downs
Kentucky
Joe Frank
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