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Nevertheless, Senate Budget Committee Chairman Pete Domenici has promised to give an amnesty consideration in fiscal-1987 budget discussions. The committee has already rejected one unpalatable deficit cure. Last week it voted 16 to 6 against President Reagan's proposed budget. Six of the nays, just enough to have reversed the outcome, came from the panel's Republican majority...
While there remains no cure for AIDS, agency officials said, research over the past year shows that virtually all people in high-risk groups who repeatedly test positive to the blood test can infect others...
...simple cure for the deep depression that is gripping America's farm belt, but Don Lacy, president of Contract Freighters in Joplin, Mo., wants to help out in a small way and do his company a favor at the same time. Lacy plans to fill about 500 full-time openings for truck drivers this year by hiring financially strapped farmers. The new recruits will receive twelve weeks of training and then take to the highways for an average salary of $24,000 a year. Says Lacy: "I don't want to hold this out as a miracle that will save...
...theory at least, there is a partial cure to the growing power of the influence-peddling pack: further limits on campaign expenditures and public financing of elections. But Congress is not likely to vote for these reforms any time soon, in large part because as incumbents they can almost always raise more money than challengers can. Certainly, most Congressmen have become wearily resigned to living with lobbyists. They are sources of money, political savvy, even friendship. In the jaded culture of Washington, influence peddlers are more envied than disdained. Indeed, to lawmakers on the Hill and policymakers throughout the Executive...
...tired behavioral-reductionist tradition, he likens murder to a disease we have to "cure" even though available methods "one day will almost certainly seem barbaric." Apparently what is barbaric tomorrow is a-okay today...