Word: adjustments
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Whatever modest steps Congress takes to trim Social Security spending, the budget deficit is likely to remain huge for many years to come. As part of the tax-cut legislation passed in 1981, federal income tax brackets will be subject to indexing starting in 1985. Indexing will automatically adjust the brackets to keep taxpayers from paying a higher percentage of their income simply because of inflation. But that will hold down revenues and help perpetuate the deficit dilemma. Given Congress's reluctance to make necessary cuts in spending and Reagan's determination to boost defense outlays, Schultze, Heller...
...price of the stress on consensus, of course, is that by the time an issue reaches Reagan, conflicts have frequently been muffled or at least glossed over, and he does not hear forceful arguments on either side of the case. Most advisers nonetheless learn quickly to adjust to this system, and they are amply rewarded: Reagan hates to discipline anyone, and will rarely criticize aides even for sloppy staff work that gets him into political trouble. When he does reject an adviser's views, he usually tries to let the subordinate down as gently as possible. For example, when Secretary...
With these commands, Rob can search through the necklace of satellites that rings the earth and pick up any one of 150 TV channels. He can also dial the telephone, adjust the angle of his bed, dim the lights, dictate letters, play video games and write computer programs on the Carnegie-Mellon University computer network in nearby Pittsburgh. Next January he will start taking college-level courses by satellite...
...freshmen needs such diligent attention their first year away. But in smaller ways, the freshmen host family program has helped hundreds of students who come from distant or radically different environments to adjust to life in Cambridge...
...situation reveals an apparent misplacement of priorities in Harvard's educational program. By refusing to adjust funding to accommodate long-term changes in student interests (VES has been oversubscribed for at least five years, according to the department). Harvard is forcing its students to conform to a pre-ordained distribution of fields rather than responding to changes in educational needs. Whether a students concentrates (or takes a course) in history or VES should be a decision based on the student's own educational objectives, not on the monetary cost of teaching the subject. Yet by under funding relatively costly departments...