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What may influence the voters' judgment is Tory criticism that the Trudeau years failed to resolve the alienation of the newly resource-rich Western Canadian provinces, which feel that their growing economic clout is not matched by commensurate political influence in the central government. The Westerners served for decades as a captive market for high-priced manufactured goods from Eastern Canada. Now that they have come into their own, oil-producing Alberta and Saskatchewan are resentful that the Trudeau government has claimed a slice of their petroleum revenues to subsidize the price of imported oil, on which most...
Carter planned to stop rising hospital costs by slapping a 9 per cent ceiling on revenue increases and major capital expenditures, enforcing the regulations with the clout of Medicare and Medicaid, the source of more than half the hospital industry's revenues. Backed by blustering Joe Califano, secretary of HEW, Carter pushed the bill on a reluctant Congress in April 1977. Since then, committee after subcommittee responded to heavy pressure from the medical lobby and near-total silence from public interest groups, dismembering the original bill...
...much clout such committees would command is questionable. Faculty Council members this week requested that the reforms clearly state that students on the committee serve on a strictly advisory basis. As a result, Faculty members on each committee would have sole responsibility to enforce tutorial policy in their own departments; they would serve as their own judges...
...much clout can Gov. Edward J. King muster to raise the drinking age to 21? Next week will tell...
Harvard does wield a lot of political clout in the city, as much or more than any other institution in Cambridge. The council is threatening to cut back on some of that power, though, in the wake of what Preusser termed "an institutional powerplay" by Harvard...