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...schools, outlawing abortion, and allowing tuition tax credits for private schools. But with the deficit and arms control occupying his attention, he may do what he did in the first term: pay lip service to the Moral Majority and its allies while keeping its legislative proposals on the back burner. Reagan could have a larger and more lasting impact on social issues if there are vacancies on the Supreme Court. With two or three Reagan appointees, court conservatives might have the votes to overturn landmark decisions legalizing abortion and banning school prayer...
...What stood out [with the nuclear study] was the attempt by the University to write a study relevant to an ongoing policy issue of national importance--to be on the front burner," Blumenthal said...
THIS EMPHASIS on huge-and, increasingly, unreasonably expensive--power plants, whether nuclear or coal-fired, relegates other sources of power, such as conservation and the use of renewable resources, to the back burner. Under the DOE plan, conservation measures get last priority. Meanwhile, however, an experiment going on now at Hook River, Oregon, where an entire town was refitted with the latest in energy efficient insulation and appliances, seems to be proving that conservation can indeed quickly pay for itself and eliminate the need for many additional power plants...
...piece of news is not the top story on the evening news, it must not be terribly important. A poll of "informed" Americans would probably find last month's most important story involved the Libyan in London. The networks and major papers kept the story on the front burner of political discussion for nearly a week. But is the Libyan incident as relevant to the average American as the furious war in the Mideast, which may affect the economic, political and military security of the nation? Apparently the movers and shakers of the press thought so. While the commentators were...
...Kennedy School," Thomas says. However, according to Broadnax, as the K-School grows, "It becomes more and more likely that it will take on a more cosmopolitan environment as we work towards achieving an optimum mix of foreign students and move those issues confronting developing countries to the front burner...