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NASA Administrator T. Keith Glennan complains about Congress' "crippling" cuts in NASA funds. But in fact Congress trimmed NASA funds in the current fiscal year by less than 6%-from $530 million to $500 million-and Glennan helped bring on that cut himself when he argued at a congressional hearing that extra funds could not speed up U.S. space progress...
...money without getting results." Like many another leader in the wheat-corn belt, Boone recognized that farmers have just about harvested their way to the end of public patience with a farm subsidy program that now costs a scandalous $6.6 billion a year and gets worse with each crop (current Government-owned surplus: $9 billion...
...Which the Spanish call the Third Invasion, the first being the Roman, the second the Moorish, and the fourth-and current peaceful one -the American...
Galbraith praised the results of the American aid policy in Europe, but also blamed that policy indirectly for the government's current dollar loss. So much attention has been devoted to European economics, he explained, that the American financial situation has been somewhat neglected...
...circa 624-546 B.C.), about whom little is known, to Whitehead and Wittgenstein, both of whom the author knew well, Russell tells something of the life as well as the ideas of the hundred-odd philosophers who have helped to make the mind of the West. Says he: "The current trend towards more and fiercer specialisms is making men forget their intellectual debts to their forbears...