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...major consumer, environmental and citizens groups in Washington, says Consumers Union, spend approximately $3 million annually on all forms of lobbying, "roughly three-tenths of 1 per cent of what business is spending on grassroots lobbying alone...
Perhaps nowhere is the impact of corporate political power greater than on state-wide initiative campaigns. In 1976, the Massachusetts "bottle bill" initiative was defeated, 51 to 49 per cent. Proponents spent $59,000. Opponents spent over $1.5 million, 99 per cent of which was raised form corporate sources rather than from individuals...
...their book, the force structure they envision supports defense of Western Europe, Japan and Israel only, and emphatically eliminates all other conventional capabilities. This is, in essence, a one-war strategy as opposed to the current one-and-a-half-war strategy. Such a reduction in contingencies (33 per cent) explains most of BSG's 40 per cent reduction in the defense budget...
...flock to University Health Services (UHS) each examination period for medical excuses, the Faculty Council last week ruled that starting next fall an asterisk will appear on transcripts to mark courses in which students have taken make-up exams. The Faculty Council adopted the policy, citing the 300 per cent increase over the last five years in the number of students "sicking out"--as taking a medical excuse is called...
Carter admits there is an oil crisis, but he opposes the most important thing that can be done to meet this crisis: developing a transportation system that does not depend 100 per cent on the automobile and the airplane. This means a rail system, because: (1) with sufficient traffic, railroads are the most fuel-efficient form of transportation; and (2) railroads can and should be electrified (as in Europe) because electricity can be generated by almost any fuel. It will take years to develop such a system, and we can not wait until the oil is gone to begin...