Word: congression
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...separate the violent children from the others and provide them with care, help and rehabilitation. The committee is thinking about amending the Juvenile Delinquency Act of 1965 to provide the schools with ancillary services. But it may be a year before the committee makes any concrete proposal or persuades Congress to help...
Other states, including California and Virginia, are designing their own conservation bills of rights to go before the voters next year, and New York Representative Richard Ottinger has introduced in Congress a similar amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Thus it now seems clear that after years of dangerous procrastination, the U.S. is casting its vote for a clean environment...
OKUN: Federal pay is a real scary area now, given the attitude in Congress and the pressures of the unions. Let us take another simple thing like fair trade. If we could repeal the fair-trade laws that allow some manufacturers to fix retail prices, that action alone could reduce the consumer price index by an estimated three-tenths of 1%. Then there are oil imports and the whole range of policies regarding agriculture, which have important price implications...
...Harvard faculty members have contacted top officials in the National Science Foundation (NSF) in an effort to convince them to ask Congress for a dramatic increase in appropriations for projects which, like the Cambridge Project. use computers for social science research...
...Smith talked with an aide to Lee A. DuBridge. President Nixon's science adviser, and with aides to Sens. J. William Fulbright (D-Ark.) and Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.) and to Rep. Emilio Q. Daddario (D-Conn.). Kennedy and Daddario head Congressional subcommittees that recommend to Congress how much money to authorize for science research organizations like...