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Howard Phillips, Independent Voters Party: In contrast to the "Great Society" policies, Phillips offers voters a "Grand Bargain, which he says would cut federal spending by $500 billion a year and eliminate the need for taxes and the Internal Revenue Service...
Certain Massachusetts environmental groups, the chief proponents of Question Three, convincingly argue that several major industries have not kept up their side of the bargain. They have proposed the Recycling Initiative to force industries to follow one of five possible solutions in order to solve the solid waste problem. Each of these guidelines will reduce "virgin" packaging by about 25 percent by 1996 and by 50 percent by 2002. Industries could either reduce packaging, make their packaging recyclable or recycle from already-used packaging. We endorse Question Three as a prudent pro-environment, pro-business answer to a major problem...
...industry has grown tremendously because Americans have been forsaking pork and beef over the years and consuming far more chicken: 66 lbs. per capita last year, up from 28 lbs. in 1960. Health is not the only reason -- consumers also know a bargain. At an average 88 cents per lb. for a whole broiler, chicken costs 50% less than it did three decades ago, after adjustment for inflation. One reason for the low prices is that fowl production is concentrated in poor rural areas of the South...
...this time Drogoul had a flamboyant new Georgia attorney named Bobby Lee Cook, who argued that the banker was an innocent pawn of Rome and Washington. An investigation by an Italian parliamentary committee leaned toward the same conclusion. Shoob thus allowed the Justice Department to cancel its plea-bargain agreement with Drogoul. But U.S. prosecutors still believe they were right. Says Brill: "((Drogoul)) had confessed to the crime over and over again. It was only when Bobby Lee Cook came in that he denied he was guilty...
...costs just $2 million for a tenured chair (as in, "Linsky Professor of Politics Michael S. Dukakis"), or $3 million for the deluxe-model University professorship, according to Vice President for Alumni Affairs and Development Fred L. Glimp '50. Bargain hunters might want to endow a junior professorship for the low, low price of $1 million...