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...generating public works projects ran into trouble in the House and was allowed to die by Speaker Tip O'Neill. The cities could take consolation, however, in last-minute continuation of the CETA program, under which 725,000 public service jobs were funded this year at a cost of $11 billion. If Administration forecasts of a 5.7% unemployment rate next year are accurate, the program will provide about 660,000 jobs, 65,000 fewer than the White House wanted...
Some officers, on the other hand, fret about women soldiers' time lost because of menstruation, pregnancies and abortions. Pentagon statistics, however, indicate that healthy women are very rarely incapacitated by menstruation and that abortions are comparable to minor illnesses, averaging 4.8 days of leave. Full-term pregnancies do cost the military an average of 105 days, but only about 8% of the women get pregnant in any given year. Besides, while women need more time off for gynecological reasons, men lose 10% more time because of drinking, 80% more time because of drug abuse, and have an AWOL rate...
...fact, the Pentagon now finds that it can recruit what it regards as high-quality females for about the same price as low-quality males. While it costs the Army about $3,700, the Marines $2,050, the Navy $1,950 and the Air Force $870 in advertising and other expenses to sign up a male secondary-school graduate who scores high on aptitude tests, the cost to all four services for an equally qualified woman is only $150. By 1982, the Pentagon estimates, the recruitment of more women will enable it to maintain its standards of quality and still...
...Mary F. Berry, assistant secretary for education at HEW, said that preliminary estimates indicate the TAF will cost nearly one and a half times the projections made by Silber and Kennedy. Berry--who argued with Kennedy over the effectiveness of current student programs--cited an outside analysis estimating the TAF would cost $7 billion a year for 43 years; Silber later said a more likely figure would be $45 billion a year for twenty years...
...much to offer right here in Cambridge. If you wait until Nov. 17, you can see Grover Washington, Jr. at the Harvard Square Theater. If you hide in the balcony overnight, you can see Tom Waits and Leon Redbone the following evening. For free (otherwise it'll cost you $8.50). From Nov. 9-12 you can catch Stormin' Norman and Suzy at Passim. For those of you who are into Balkan-American Folk Music (fees up, I know you're out there somewhere) Laduvane willbe coming to Passim on Nov. 1. And on Nov. 5, Jonathan Swift's will host...