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DEAN FOX'S decision to reduce the number of House dining halls serving full breakfasts in order to facilitate the opening of the Freshman Union on weekends reveals a disturbing disregard for the overwhelming student and worker opposition to the proposal. By failing to consult the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life about the proposed change Fox once more displayed his contempt for the proper democratic channels of University decision-making...
Labor leaders are outraged because Carter does not consult with them more often on economic policies and seems more worried about inflation than unemployment. They are also upset about his refusal to boost tariffs to protect the shoe industry. Farm groups are angry over his penny-pinching proposals to hold down increases in price supports for their crops. On the other hand, businessmen fear that his plans for stimulating the economy, chiefly through a $50 tax rebate for most Americans, will not help the economy and may spur inflation. To add to the worries of the business community, the Labor...
...Court reviewed juvenile justice procedures through In re Gault, a case involving an Arizona boy abruptly jailed after making an obscene telephone call. The court decided that Gault and other young defendants should have many due-process rights available previously only to adults. Among them were the rights to consult an attorney and to cross-examine witnesses...
...from grants and contracts from federal agencies--mainly NASA and the National Science Foundation. Though each of the observatories maintains its own financial and administrative structure, scientists pay no attention to those structures while conducting research. SAO and HCO scientists have offices interspersed on the same halls, and they consult each other without considering which observatory they draw pay from. Many at the Center hold appointments with both groups. Field, the Center's director, is also director of SAO and HCO. But even he cannot delineate exactly where each of the observatories begins and ends. Of his own conference room...
Carter did not consult anyone on the Hill or in the states before announcing that he was cutting $289 million-earmarked for 19 water-control projects-out of Gerald Ford's proposed budget for fiscal 1978. Convinced that many projects were unnecessary, he had vowed during the campaign "to get the Corps of Engineers out of the dam-building business." The President personally approved the 19 projects for the endangered species list on the grounds that they were uneconomical by today's standards, unsafe or unsound in terms of their effect on the environment. So far, $1 billion...