Word: correctives
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this instance, they are correct. And as they admit. Harvard cannot undertake a rehabilitation and maintain the building's present low and moderate-income housing stock, thereby denying any chance of return on the sizable investment. The University has its financial standing to consider...
...them $32 billion below what would be paid out if all Government programs continued unchanged. But the so-called freeze would be extremely uneven. After adjustment for inflation, military outlays would jump 9%. Civilian spending in real terms would drop 3%, but only if the Administration is correct in calculating that even a creeping economic recovery will reduce payments for unemployment compensation and farm-price supports by $15 billion. That drop is not included in the $32 billion of expenditure savings because it is supposed to be automatic, but it is the biggest deficit-reducing item in the whole budget...
...remarks last week, and doubtless will resound in the State of the Union speech as well. At his news briefing, Reagan once more pinned blame for the recession on "the overtaxing, overspending, over-regulating binge of the '60s and '70s . . . that we've finally started to correct." He added: "Nearly every economic indicator shows us heading into recovery. The same economists who were arguing a few months ago about how much worse the economy would get are now arguing how strong the recovery is going...
That possibility is always a worry. "I don't like to see a child have to get up and testify," says Brenda Watson, a founder of the West Linn, Ore., firm that makes the anatomically correct dolls. "But what happened to him or her was worse. The only way to protect the children is to go through the judicial system." -By Bennett H. Beach. Reported by Magda Krance/Chicago and Laura Meyers/Los Angeles
...only about a dozen attorneys working full time on behalf of the condemned. Court-appointed lawyers in most states are not required to stay on a murderer's case after a conviction. "Drunk lawyers, lazy lawyers, incompetent lawyers, no lawyers," says Holdman. "You can have all the correct issues for appeal, but if you don't have a good lawyer to raise them, they don't mean a damn thing." Of 2,000 death sentences imposed during the post-Furman decade, about half have been reversed or vacated by the courts...