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...most daring legislation so far was the welfare-reform bill enacted two weeks ago. While the measure did not alter by much the total spending targeted for helping the nation's poor, it took the historic step of eliminating many of the federal welfare programs from the sacred category of entitlements. That was done by fixing limits on what will be spent rather than letting the programs require whatever funds a recipient had coming under federal rules. The implication is that if poverty increases, some recipients will simply be out of luck unless state and local governments pick...
...must report that many faculty and staff members remain troubled by the process," the report says. "Not a few regard the changes, while within the University's legal rights to alter benefit programs as its needs and resources change, as a breach of trust between the University and its faculty and staff...
...landmark events of his life. F.D.R. realized that a physical disability was often misperceived as a sign of weakness. Thus he recognized the need to veil his own disability to focus the public's view on his strengths as a leader, not his handicap. I oppose any attempt to alter, delay or add cost to this 40-year project. The time has come to cease revisionism. The memorial's purpose is to provide a historical retrospective of one of the most critical periods in U.S. history, not to be a source of social commentary. David B. Roosevelt Westport, Connecticut...
Neither the Standing Committee nor the Faculty of Arts and Science has the power to revoke or alter the announced changes; as a matter that affects the entire University and all its faculties, only the Corporation can change its original decisions...
...result, according to Andrew Kull, a historian of civil rights legislation, was that "[e]xpenditure was minimized, because the really expensive part of the traditional [liberal] prescription--substantial government intervention to alter the lives of the truly disadvantaged--was being abandoned...