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Approval for a new drug to curtail premature births
...nation's largest city faces a special handicap in coping with black problems: perched on the brink of bankruptcy for five years, it has had little choice but to curtail services that had once made life more bearable for blacks trapped in some of the bleakest ghettos in the U.S. Blacks occupy 41.2% of the substandard housing in the city and account for about 36% of the 867,173 New Yorkers on welfare. The basic monthly allowance ($476 for a family of four) has not gone up since 1974, but food costs have risen 42.5%, utilities 82%, transportation...
...late April, a similar decision proved equally unsettling to the Corporation when the ACSR voted in favor of a proxy calling on International Business Machines (IBM) to curtail its computer sales to South Africa. It noted that computers may be used to maintain the records for the country's passbook system and other aspects of apartheid. But the Corporation abstained once again, noting that IBM's computers could go just as easily to hospitals and school as to the supporting network of apartheid...
...Forum funded and staffed the activities of the ad hoc committee, and Giral added that the budget cuts would severely curtail the work of the intra-departmental panel, which sponsored Saturday's meeting...
...issue: the 236,000 dependents of American soldiers and airmen in Europe, most of whom live in West Germany. In an effort to curtail the number of dependents overseas, Congress has imposed a ceiling on the number the military can sponsor. The congressional scheme would not affect cost of living differentials, PX privileges and other routine fringe benefits given to all overseas personnel. Rather, it would sharply curtail the number eligible for family transportation and resettlement allowances. As a result, many servicemenespecially among lower rankswould find they simply could no longer afford to bring their dependents...