Word: curtailer
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...free legal help to the state's farm workers, many of them Mexican Americans. C.R.L.A. works through the law and tackles anything from predatory salesmen who extract $500 in time-payments from uncomprehending victims for $100 cameras, to California Governor Ronald Reagan, who tried vainly last year to curtail the program's influence. C.R.L.A. has won 85% of the 4,000 cases it has taken to court. The benefits, as Lorenz sees them, go far beyond the courtroom. "If you act in groups," he says of CR.L.A.'s clients, "you can at least gam a limited sense...
Pinched Budget. Head Start administrators see their problem in the fact that under HEW the individual states would control the program and possibly curtail its scope. Traditional support for state control is one reason for the longstanding Republican opposition to OEO. When Head Start proved to be not only a resounding success but also a catalyst for integration, Southern Democrats joined the opposition. Now OEO fears that segregationists would deliberately downgrade the program in the South...
...Cross Orthodox Theological School in Brookline, Mass., ten theologians from the university walked out of the assembly and boycotted the rest of the congress. After Iakovos went out of his way to praise Greece's past democratic political tradition, the country's military regime ordered newspapers to curtail their coverage of the congress. George Papadopoulos, the strongman of the ruling junta, pointedly failed to show up at the climactic banquet, pleading a sprained ankle. Archbishop Ieronymos, Primate of the Greek church, agreed to show up at the dinner only after it was made clear to him that...
...pooled plasma carries hepatitis virus, and its assorted proteins may cause severe allergic-type reactions. Last week the Division of Biologies Standards, the Federal Government's watchdog over all medicinal preparations containing blood fractions, took legal steps to halt shipment of plasma in interstate commerce, and thus drastically curtail...
...Federal Government curtail marijuana use by requiring those who deal in the drug to register and pay a tax? Since possession of pot is illegal in every state-even when the tax is paid-and since the name of anyone buying a tax stamp is made public, U.S. District Court Judge Frank Theis ruled last month in Wichita, Kans., that practically speaking the law cannot be enforced constitutionally. Following the reasoning of the U.S. Supreme Court, which found similar defects in tax laws dealing with guns and gamblers, Theis held that enforcement of the marijuana tax violated the constitutional guarantee...