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When it came time to vote the actual money, Congress would not give the President all the additional cuts he wanted. But after Reagan vetoed a stopgap resolution (theoretically shutting the Government down for a day) the legislators passed a bill that reduced spending by another $4 billion. They did so at the behest of Reagan lieutenants who conferred only with Republican leaders and did not so much negotiate as tell them what the President would and would not accept. Moreover, Congress gave Reagan power within broad limits to take that $4 billion out of whichever programs he chose, over...
Surprisingly enough, few detailed studies exist about the actual cost of remediation and how effective it is. Horizons Unlimited, a special program at Florida State University, now screens and trains about 200 underprepared students. Director Earl Gordon has no exact count but as evidence of the program's success can point to graduates who have become doctors, businessmen and lawyers. At the 170,000-student City University of New York, well known for its mission to educate all comers, there are no plans to cut back open admissions, even though remediation costs $33 million annually. All incoming freshmen must...
Charlotte Ploss of Mission Hill anticipated in her testimony that BWH's payments in lieu of taxes on the new buildings would not reflect their actual value and social cost. After the hearings Ploss said BWH's payments would probably duplicate "the MATEP swindle" under which Harvard will annually pay Boston one-half of one per cent of the facility's value. Hassan refused to comment on the negotiations determining the size of BWH's payments...
Horner has also witnessed numerous cases of actual or near sterilization abuse like the one she describes above...
...abuse in this country abounds. Last month, the American College of Surgeons reported that in 1979 (the latest statistics available) hysterectomy was the second most frequently performed operation on women, the fourth most performed surgical procedure overall. The Surgeons listed tubal ligation fifth overall. In terms of actual numbers, out of 23.8 million operations performed in 1979, 639,000 of them were hysterectomies while 610,000 were tubal ligations...