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...Abolition of elite institutions. Labor has accepted a radical motion that would abolish Britain's storied private schools and the House of Lords. The radicals consider the House of Lords a prime symbol of the elitist British class system. One left-wing leader proposed a novel idea for its self-destruction: place 1,000 new barons in the House of Lords just so they could vote to abolish...
Encouraged by Congress' apparent lack of interest in the issue, Reagan seems content to avoid the question. Instead he could exploit the opportunity to renounce a program that is an inadequate response to the problem of how best to improve the military. The president can abolish registration with an executive order. He should...
...Cambridge Chamber of Commerce Monday attacked one of the other proposals-a 1-per-cent payroll tax-and suggested that Cambridge abolish rent control and allow unlimited condominium conversion in an attempt to increase its tax base...
...commissioned the investigation and called the decision to abolish HDNS "ultimately my decision" --said this week he would like to see HSA take over the on campus newspaper delivery...
...took in energy while serving as Governor, when he created the South Carolina Energy Research Institute, qualifies him for the post in the Reagan Cabinet." He advocates stepped-up development of nuclear power as "the cheapest, the safest and the cleanest" source of energy available. He wants to abolish regulations that are "standing in the way" of producing more energy from all sources. Says he: "We need to unleash it, to free the private sector." To that end, he says, "it would be my pleasure to try and cut down DOE'S size, to dismantle it, to redistribute...