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...require able-bodied people on the dole to perform worthwhile labor for their checks? Five years ago, California's then Governor Ronald Reagan introduced an ambitious program for providing chores or "training" for all healthy adult recipients, except for mothers with children under six. The legislature voted to abolish it less than three years later, however, amid charges that it constituted slave labor. Last year New York City revived a similar program targeted mainly at some 50,000 men and women without children and found work of sorts for 5,700 of them in city agencies...
...over split doubleheaders. Two things need be said; first, the ECAC must abolish the EIBL and set up two leagues, one for all the New England Division One teams and another for those teams in New York, New Jersey, and Maryland. Both leagues would play their seasons independent of each other and would meet only after the regular season in a tournament involving the top four teams from each league...
Carter was also moving toward more openness on the domestic scene. He proposed a series of election reforms that would include more Americans in the political process. One would abolish the electoral college and have the President elected directly by the people (see box). Another would allow all qualified Americans, even if unregistered, to vote in federal elections simply by going to their polling places and showing proof of identity and place of residence. This probably would increase voting by poor whites, as well as by blacks and Hispanics. (In Minnesota and Wisconsin, which already have simplified registration laws, voter...
...chief minister raised it to 1.5 million, presumably to please Sanjay. Some 700,000 operations were actually performed, a phenomenal increase over the previous year's total of 129,000. Villagers told bitter jokes against Mrs. Gandhi, one of them based on her 1971 election slogan, GARIBI HATAO (abolish poverty). The new slogan: INDIRA HATAO, INDRI BACHAO (abolish Indira and save your penis...
...plan roughly split along geographical lines. Student opposition to the plan was based at the Quad. Although River House upperclassmen had no opportunity to present their opinions on the plan, they were far less vocal than Quad residents and the majority of River House CHUL representatives apparently voted to abolish four-class Houses when CHUL voted by secret ballot on the issue. The only House masters to publicly oppose the Fox plan were the Hastings, still in their first year as masters of North House...