Word: congressed
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...electors chosen in this week's national voting will meet in their various state capitals on Dec. 16 to cast ballots for President and Vice President of the U.S. Each state has a number of electoral votes equal to its total number of Senators and Representatives in Congress. Thus New York, for example, with 41 Representatives and two Senators, has 43 electoral votes. The District of Columbia lacks congressional representation but has three electoral votes by virtue of the 23rd Amendment, ratified...
...deepest cuts have been made in the basic-research programs of the National Science Foundation, which also provided about 8,000 new fellowships for graduate students last year. Congress sliced $95 million from the NSF projects, a 19% cut from last year's total. The research funds of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration were left almost intact, but NASA's support of graduate students was almost abandoned. NASA offered 1,335 new fellowships in 1966, but only about 45 this year. The U.S. Office of Education, which had hoped to begin major demonstration projects in new teaching...
Military Salesmanship. Educators are particularly concerned about congressional preference for applied research aimed at quick results, as against basic research, which may have no immediately demonstrable value. Congress barely touched the $1.1 billion research program of the National Institutes of Health, most of which is aimed at solving major medical problems. It actually added $48 million to the $137 million worth of academic-research projects sponsored by the Department of Defense, which has little difficulty in selling its military studies to the Houseof Representatives. Such work, however, is losing its allure on campus. Many scholars dislike the enforced secrecy...
...introduce legislation seeking major labor law reform," said an NAM vice-president, "it is necessary to create the kind of favorable public climate which resulted in the Taft-Hartley and Landrum-Griffin Acts." According to plan, the public support and efforts of Congressional conservatives will push through the Congress a bill to abolish the Labor Board, which a Republican President will then sign into...
...presumably, join in any attack that sets the precedent of stripping the Court of any part of its jurisdiction. (The "reformers" also propose to end the Court's power of review over NLRB findings.) Finally, though the "new" Republican Party is avowedly not the party of business, a Republican Congress will show little sympathy for the union movement that is its economic antagonist and the backbone of the Democrats...