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Because it is estimated that only 10 per cent of the marijuana in Massachusetts is from Mexico, the Massachusetts Public Health Department will test for paraquat in marijuana throughout Massachusetts to determine whether the existence of the chemical warrants a state-wide testing program, Knox said...
Only 16 per cent of the freshmen assigned to South House said they are not planning to transfer out, a poll conducted by the South House Committee revealed yesterday...
...Proxmire said, the federal government spent only about one cent for every dollar of city funding, but by 1976 this figure had risen to 25 cents of federal money for every city-funded dollar. Estimates for 1978 predict that the U.S. government will spend 47.5 cents this year for every dollar of city funds provided, he said...
...Corporation seems to have based the whole weight of its decision concerning investment in South Africa on the Sullivan principles. Arguing that, since US corporations make up only 2 or 3 per cent of the South African GNP, it would be more effective to improve working conditions for non-whites employed by these corporations (.4 per cent of the non-white work force). Besides ignoring the fact that low wages and inhuman work conditions are only one small aspect of apartheid, this argument rests on a strange logic that rejects one strategy because it manipulates such a small wedge...
Second, the implementation of these principles will require only a couple of dollars a day. To achieve anything approaching a decent minimum wage could require increases as large as 500-1000 per cent in some industries. The early history of labor in our own country shows that companies are usually unwilling to offer even small wage increases when labor has no effective bargaining power, as is the case in South Africa today. Even if corporations have developed a little more consideration for morality since the era of the Robber Baron, would they willingly accept the burden of huge wage increases...