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...State University dropped doctoral programs in agricultural economics, chemistry, entomology and plant pathology because they were drawing few students. For similar reasons, the six state colleges and universities in Kansas are considering eliminating 63 graduate programs. And in New York, a commission has recommended that the board of regents abolish all doctoral programs that fail to meet "standards of high quality and need." Adoption of the Newman proposals would accelerate the trend toward reform-and make it nationwide...
...Anthropology Department voted unanimously yesterday to abolish senior general examinations and to test all concentrators in their sophomore year, beginning with the Class...
...when Williams inspected the charts calculating medical and food stamp payments (which are subject to threshold effects), it was clear that there was still no real work incentive. The facts and figures pointed to a Friedmanesque solution for redistribution: give away money through a straight negative income tax and abolish all other programs...
...federal,' " laments Lord Gladwyn, a member of Britain's delegation to the European Parliament at Strasbourg, "they think you are going to abolish the Queen. If you say 'supranational,' they think a French gendarme is going to hit them over the head. Eventually, if prices do not rise too much, if there is not great unemployment, if there hasn't been an invasion of Italians raping all the women, then people will simply accept...
...five case histories that make up the skeleton of Pathways to Madness. Each family was profoundly sick, each had one member already put away as autistic or psychotic. But Henry warns the reader-and by implication admonishes his less scrupulous colleagues, some of whom have even seemed eager to abolish the family altogether-that "psychosis is not created by family life only...