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...acid rain legislation has thus far been blocked by Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman John Dingell of Michigan. He and other Midwestern congressmen contend that most bills would unfairly require their constituents to foot the bill for reductions in sulfur dioxide emissions...
...Manuel Johnson, an Assistant Treasury Secretary. Two other outspoken advocates of the supply-side view are Alan Reynolds, an economic consultant with Polyconomics in Morristown, N.J., and Paul Craig Roberts, a former Assistant Treasury Secretary in the Reagan Administration who is now a professor at Georgetown University. Supply-siders contend that the main factor propping up interest rates is the Federal Reserve's tight money policy. They argue that it was the Reserve Board that caused the recession and that if the 'Fed would loosen up, interest rates would come down and growth would stay strong...
...schools were required to provide similar funding and treatment for men's and women's athletics or risk losing all federal funds. But under the recent decision, shifting funds away from women's sports would jeopardize federal aid to other university programs. As a result critics of ht decision contend, university with limited athletic budgets may be inclined to cut back on women's programs...
Another major theory predicts a diametrically opposite effect. According to the underdog theory, a large portion of the electorate, believing that victory is assured, simply don't bother to vote. Supporters of this theory also contend that because people naturally sympathize with the underdog, voters may cast their ballots out of pity for, rather than in support of, a candidate...
...National Steel, which would have combined the largest and seventh-largest companies. Steel officials in recent months have been predicting that the business was about to undergo a series of such mergers, which would reduce the number of major steel producers from eight to as few as three. Executives contend that by combining resources, fewer rank-and-file steelworkers and middle managers would be needed, excess capacity would be reduced, and spending for raw materials to produce steel would be lessened. That consolidation would make U.S. firms more efficient and better able to compete against foreign steelmakers, which have captured...