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...giveaway to the dairy interests, fueled in part by the industry's campaign contributions to Congressmen. The meat industry feared that dairy farmers would cut production by slaughtering their older cows for beef, creating a glut of meat that would depress prices. And the Reagan forces contend that over a four-year period the new approach will cost the Government $500 million more than the bill they favored...
...this as in other issues, Fowler's detractors say that his motto, "Let the marketplace decide," translates as "Let the industry decide." They contend that his stated intention of making the broadcast media as unfettered as print ignores a fundamental distinction: the number of broadcast outlets is limited, and the Government decides who gets them. "The reason for regulation," notes former FCC Chairman Charles Ferris, "is still the scarcity of the spectrum and the fact that not everyone can participate...
...Byerly Hall--where admissions officers must daily contend with the image of Harvard as an impersonal university. Whose professors are seldom seen outside of lectures--Senior Admissions Officer David Evans said Limerick's report could reinforce that stereotype. "It's going to make our job a little tougher," he said Wednesday...
...down, he takes with him as hostage much of the hope for Palestinian nationalism. His opponents within the PLO do not, like the U.S. believe Arafat is too radical, but rather that he has "sold out" the Palestinian cause. These extremists oppose even Arafat's hints at negotiation and contend that Palestinian interests dictate the destruction of Israel...
...that women were always "goddesses or door mats," never painters. Add to this Krasner's prickly contempt for diplomacy with critics, and one can see why for most of her life her work was scanted as "minor," an appendage to Pollock's. Yet though she had to contend with bigotry, her dislike of groups always stopped her from presenting herself as a "feminist" artist. Hence by the '70s there was no lack of denigrators on both sides of the sex war tacitly writing her off as an art widow first, a painter second. Certainly, Krasner has earned...