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Dates: during 1970-1979
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GIVEN THE INEVITABILITY of an administrative response to the 300 per cent increase in sick outs over the last five years, the plan to place an asterisk after a grade received for a make-up exam is a reasonably good...
...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...
More than 60 per cent of the 77 courses...