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Washington. A proposal to require localities to adopt plans for controlling growth was rejected. The measure enjoyed broad support in polls taken in September. Then developers, realtors and other businesses began a $1.6 million campaign warning that the scheme would lead to higher property taxes and housing prices and transfer local power to the state capital. On Election Day the initiative was buried...
Yeltsin and his aides predict that Gorbachev's halfway measures will fail, forcing the Soviet President to adopt the 500-day plan after all. But for the moment the controversy is coming close to open economic war. The Russian parliament last week passed a law placing all property in Russian territory, except that belonging to the Soviet military or the KGB, under its control. Gorbachev had earlier got the Supreme Soviet to grant him power to fire the heads of businesses that refuse to obey orders from the central government. It remains to be seen which jurisdiction can make...
...President insists he wants to sign a civil rights bill, but not one that will force "businesses to adopt quotas in hiring and promotion." Democratic leaders say the President's excuse is a sham. "We've met every legitimate concern of the Administration, and our efforts have been met with nothing but political sloganeering," charges Texan Jack Brooks, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee...
...March 1988, three former members of the College's public service organization convinced the Harvard Club of Chicago to adopt a disadvantaged public high school under the Chicago Public School's Adopt-A-School Program...
...Foreman school isn't the only one who benefits from the adoption. Teacher and literary textbook writer Donna Rosenberg, a graduate of the School of Education, said her involvement with Foreman High School has been "an incredible experience." Rosenberg, who is one of the most active participants in the adopt-a-school program, leads discussions on short stories with four classes a day per week with Susan Friedes...