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...raising standards and giving parents more freedom to choose the schools their children attend. But he has also made it clear that his chief priority is to make education more accessible to the disadvantaged. He favors increases in student aid and is a staunch advocate of bilingual education. In almost every speech he decries the fact that 25% of the nation's teenagers drop out before completing high school and that 40% of Hispanics still have no diploma by age 25. "Por favor, nios, no dejen la escuela" (Please, children, do not leave school), he pleaded at his first press...
...Michael Milken. It is not just that Milken's firm, Drexel Burnham Lambert, is bankrolling the Kohlberg Kravis Roberts bid to the tune of $5 billion. Milken's role is much grander and far more controversial. The boyish moneyman with the tousled toupee and the obsessive work habits has almost single-handedly sparked the frenzy of takeovers and buyouts that has given the Roaring Eighties their name. And his tactics along the way may put him behind bars as a result...
...brews sound almost too good to be true: they have about the same body and alcohol level (up to 5%) of regular premiums but with less sugar and, some claim, the low caloric content of light beers. Get ready to hear a whole lot more about "dry beers," which are being introduced in U.S. bars, restaurants and supermarkets. After only two months of testing in five regional markets, St. Louis-based Anheuser-Busch, Inc., the nation's biggest brewer, is so enthusiastic about its version of the product -- Michelob Dry -- that it is launching it with the industry's biggest...
...years opponents of abortion have directed their energies toward overturning the hated decision. Now, with George Bush's capture of the presidency, many believe victory is almost at hand. "I think we see the end of the tunnel and the demise of Roe v. Wade," proclaims Clarke Forsythe, legal director of Americans United for Life. With the Republican win, insists John Willke, president of the National Right to Life Committee...
Free trade will hardly mean the end of all Canada-U.S. commercial disputes. Naturally enough, in a dense and complex trading relationship, some issues are almost always simmering. Among the most sensitive is a long-standing U.S. complaint that Canada illegally protects West Coast fish processors. And by Dec. 6, the Reagan Administration must rule on the continuation of a punitive 35% tariff on imports of Canadian cedar shakes and shingles...