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...bill, which would mandate a balanced federal budget by 1991. Under the terms of both bills, if the deficit is not reduced by a set amount in each of the next several years, most federal spending--including much financial aid to college students--would be reduced by an across-the-board percentage. In addition, the President may be given broad discretionary powers in determining which programs...
...election eve, F.D.R. had backed down, assuring voters that he understood the need for tariffs. Protectionist politicking, however, could not save the Republicans in 1932. Smoot and Hawley joined Hoover in defeat. The Democrats dismantled the G.O.P.'s legislative handiwork with caution, using reciprocal trade agreements rather than across-the-board tariff reductions. The Smoot-Hawley approach was discredited. Sam Rayburn, House Democratic Speaker from 1940 until 1961, insisted that any party member who wanted to serve on the Ways and Means Committee had to support reciprocity, not protectionism...
...things were already, they will probably get worse this week if, as expected, tens of thousands of black miners go on strike. In recent negotiations, some of the mining companies have come close to agreeing to the black union's demand for an across-the-board 22% wage increase, while others have not. At week's end a strike was due to begin Sunday night at five gold mines and two coal mines employing a total of 60,000 black miners. In the past such walkouts have led to the firing of large numbers of striking workers...
...Administration's original plan would have denied assistance to students with family incomes exceeding $35,000. Those who still qualified for loans would remain grossly under funded, handicapped by new across-the-board caps on individual awards...
...result was an across-the-board increase in gate receipts and net profits, all of which went, to the Jimmy Fund, organizers said...