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...council asked the President and meeting chairman Edwin R. Meese III for policy changes, including the promotion of private ownership of public housing, funding to enable poor Black children to attend private schools, and a reform in the foster care system, making it easier for low income persons to adopt children in public charge...
Finally, the FDIC's move may have a measurable impact on bank management in the future. While shareholders--and depositors--may soon forget the Continental Illinois fiasco, directors will probably adopt more conservative lending and management policies. The real threat of the collapse of one of the country's largest banks is, in itself, a significant and continual warning. The possibility of being held responsible for such a failure should make directors more active in bank management and more responsible for their actions both to shareholders and to depositors...
Officials at Yale, where this year's freshman class has highest number of Asian-Americans ever, say they, like Harvard, will adopt the same policy of less aggressive Oriental recruitment in the future
Again, the problem seems one of will, of whether or not one decides to seize time for one's advantage or to adopt the sinister equation that "Time is money." In A Question of Upbringing, Anthony Powell was struck by Poussin's painting of the dancing figures of Time who were "unable to control the melody, unable, perhaps, to control the steps of the dance." Today the dance has grown frenetic beyond measure. Yet everything hinges on the "perhaps"; in the world of punctuality and appointments, one may not be able to control ( all of time or even much...
...more sweeping recommendation, the experts urged that all Americans over age two adopt a diet that would reduce total fat intake from its current national level of about 40% of total calories to just 30%. Saturated fat-the type found mainly in meat and dairy products-should constitute no more than 10% of a person's daily diet, the panel said. The suggested regimen would limit cholesterol consumption to 250 to 300 mg a day (one large egg yolk contains...