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...enacted legislation to assure that private pension programs will pay workers the benefits they are promised. If a company goes bankrupt, the Government-backed Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation will make payments. But the failure of a large firm like Chrysler could virtually drain the $332 million now available to bail out private pensions...
...seems, at least to a majority of The Crimson, which today turns its back on the needs of minority students as well as its own past editorial policy. Now that the acid test of its commitment to minority students has arrived, The Crimson has decided to bail out, and all in the name of the most sacred of gods, Democracy...
...omission of Dr. Arif Hussain's criminal background raises questions beyond those of medical ethics. By showing themselves more willing to bail out a friend than to obey the moral rules of their profession, the doctors called into question the legitimate uses of influence and revealed the kind of mentality which can be bred in a heavily male environment. Whether the recommending doctors felt that the nurse who was raped had "asked for it," whether they thought their colleague had "learned his lesson," whether they merely forgot to mention the conviction, or whether--as one doctor said last week--they...
Smith has declared that violent crime will be the Justice Department's top priority. Accordingly, the department this fall may push Congress for a federal death penalty; a loosening of the "exclusionary rule" that makes illegally obtained evidence inadmissible at trials; and stricter bail laws, including the right to refuse bail to "dangerous" offenders. Complains Ira Glasser, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union: "These measures will harm civil liberties without having any impact on crime...
Moreover, Costa Rica has a tradition of spending beyond its means. For three decades the government rolled over its debts from one year to the next, confident that the steadily rising price for coffee, which accounts for one-third of its trade, would bail it out. But gradually, even as it continued to launch more public-works projects and import more luxury goods, Costa Rica got snared in the same dilemma that is afflicting countries throughout the Third World: the price of its exports dwindled, while those of its imports soared. In 1977 an 85-lb. sack of coffee produced...