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...only recently--possibly temporarily--changed their policy. Gay and lesbian parents are routinely refused custody of their children on the grounds of "perversion" Unfortunately, most homosexuals do not as Mr. Pattullo suggests, support basic rights bring up the issue of gay parents sometime, and watch what happen') in the crunch, they come up with spurious reasons for not permitting homosexuals simple human rights and dignity. Mr. Pattullo's statement that homosexually lacks heterosexual values (i.e. the "right" ones) is one such excuse, consisting as it does of misinformation and stereotyping...
However John D. Montgomery Government Department chairman, said this week the social sciences job crunch does not appear to be hitting Harvard graduates. He noted that the low number of job offers to Government concentrators reflects that most will continue studying in graduate school this fall...
Like many other U.S. savings and loans, Fidelity had been in financial trouble for some time. Last year it lost $56.9 million. The savings and loan was caught in the now familiar crunch between old longterm, low-interest loans and the high cost of raising new money. Linda Tsao Yang, the California savings and loan commissioner, called Fidelity "a victim of high interest rates." Federal Home Loan Bank Board Chairman Richard T. Pratt tried to calm nervous depositors at Fidelity and other S and Ls by assuring them that the takeover was not the beginning of a trend. Said...
...perhaps its most serious resource problem. Last year the Foundation was budgeted at less than $10,000 and although Counter could ask for funds on a program-by-program basis, he has said that this "shoestring budget limits tremendously the things I's like to do." The funding crunch has compounded other problems as well: Counter has spent much of his limited time on the road, trying to raise funds from alumni and outside groups. In addition, his attempts to seek aid from the Black Students Association (BSA), the Afro-American Cultural Center and other minority groups have alienated many...
...depresses the prices he gets. But when he examined his ledger over the winter, he usually had something to smile about: annual farm income often rose, and the value of land and machinery soared. No more. The tears flooding rural America this spring are genuine. Caught in a cashflow crunch, farmers are facing their bleakest year since the Depression...