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Facing the same fiscal and enrollment problems that have been draining the budgets of other colleges around the nation, unconventional Bennington College in Vermont came up with a surprisingly Big Business-like solution: reducing its faculty a third. The school will also abolish its version of tenure and cut tuition 10% over the next five years...
Clinton's ideas have great popular support, but his plan will still come under fire from all sides. A group of conservatives are taking his themes and raising the stakes even further. They don't want to reform welfare; they want to abolish it. Only drastic measures, they argue, will break the cycle of dependency that has destroyed so many families. To liberals, such a policy is cruel and racist, and it punishes children for their parents' behavior. When the Philadelphia Inquirer ran an editorial suggesting that women on welfare be implanted with the contraceptive Norplant -- a sort of chemical...
...issues today surrounding ROTC arefundamentally different from the issues in 1969.Then, students sought to abolish ROTC entirely.Now, students seek to end discrimination withinthe program...
Popularity, however, cannot be taken for granted. Rendell has had 75% approval ratings, but last week Philadelphians overwhelmingly defeated a proposition that would have modified the city's charter and given him more power to create and abolish departments. Though not a permanent blow, it suggests Philadelphians still want him to be accountable. Critics also feel his cuts hurt those who most need services. Rendell sees no other avenue. "What I understand, and a lot of liberals don't, is that unless we cut waste, unless we're more efficient, unless we can create a better business environment, there...
...order to improve educational opportunities, Fenton says he would like to abolish "no parking" signs...