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...Council of Ivy Group Presidents' recent advice that the schools' bands curtail sexual innuendo and political jokes of "questionable taste" during football games prompted Harvard Band members to defend their half-time shows yesterday...

Author: By Peter Kolodziej, | Title: Harvard Band Members Defend Their Halftime Humor Shows | 5/4/1981 | See Source »

...Trudeau. His controversial constitutional reform package, initiated after the Quebec referendum to strengthen Canada's federal government, has been tied up for six months Ottawa's Parliament. Six of the nation's ten provinces have challenged Trudeau's bill in provincial courts on the grounds that it would illegally curtail the traditional rights of the provincial governments. Moreover, Trudeau's efforts to bring provincial energy resources under greater federal control have sparked bitter separatist demonstrations in the oil-and gas-rich western provinces of Alberta, Saskatchewan and British Columbia. Lévesque's new mandate seemed certain to exacerbate such burgeoning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: Levesque Lives: Quebec re-elects a separatist | 4/27/1981 | See Source »

...short, the current Reagan proposal will not just eliminate loans of convenience, which as you correctly point out, have been abused. It will eliminate the program and seriously curtail the ability of the middle class to afford the "excellent schooling for anyone who wants it" which indeed should be a choice...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Real Story | 3/16/1981 | See Source »

...alternative we can return to the program as it was before November 1978 in which the interest subsidy was available only to families earning under given income levels, unless need could be documented. Such a program would serve more of the middle class and curtail the increase in Guaranteed Student Loan costs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Real Story | 3/16/1981 | See Source »

...party, including a condensed version of the leggy Broadway hit A Chorus Line, for the nation's Governors and their wives. Thirty-one of the Governors are Democrats, and more than one-third of the budget cuts announced so far by the Administration for fiscal 1982 will curtail state and local programs that have benefited from federal money. Nonetheless, the National Governors' Conference passed a resolution declaring that the states were prepared to accept budget cuts, but only if they are given time to adjust to the new austerity, that poor people are protected against unfair treatment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reagan's Budget Blitz Rolls On | 3/9/1981 | See Source »

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